Description
Benefits of Pseudomonas Fluorescens
- Pseudomonas fluorescens protect crops from a number of soil borne / seed borne plant pathogens.
- It is specific to the plant pathogens and eco-friendly in nature.
- It induces resistance in crop plants also.
- It helps in controlling pathogenic nematodes present in the soil.
- It promotes plant growth by PGR activity.
Target Crops:
Vegetable crops, Oilseeds, Cotton, Paddy, Maize, Rice, Pulses, Sugarcane, Ornamental crops Fruit crops.
Target Diseases:
- Fusarium oxysporum
- Verticillium dahlia
- Phytopthora infestans
- Pythium aphanidermatum
- Rhizoctonia solani
- Botrytis cinerea
- Sclerotium rolfsii
- Xanthomons campestris
Method of Application & Dosage of Pseudomonas Fluorescens
- Seed Treatment: Mix 20-25 gm formulation in 1 litre of water and applied specially tuber crops like Potato, Sweet potato etc. Shade dry the seeds for 20-30 minutes before sowing.
- Seedlings Treatment: Dissolve 500 gm formulation in 25 litre of water. Dip seedling root for about half an hour in the suspension and transplant immediately.
- Nursery Seed Bed Preparation: Mix 500 gm formulation in 10 kg of well-decomposed farm yard manure/compost/vermi compost and broadcast in an acre.
- Drip Irrigation: Mix 1-2 kg formulation in 100 litre of water and drench the soil in 1 acre.
- Horticulture/Vegetable Crops: Mix 500 gm formulation in 100 litre of water and drench the soil near the root zone up to 15 – 20 cm depth for collar rot control with high volume sprayer without nozzler or big nozzle.
- Fruit Crops: Mix 20 – 50 gm formulation per plant in sufficient quantity of farmyard manure/vermi compost/soil of the field and broadcasting the active root zone of the fruit crop.