Applied Microbiology: Open Access
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Tea Research Association, North Bengal Regional Research and Development Centre, West Bengal, India

Biography

Dr Azariah Babu, has completed Ph.D under the guidance of Prof. Dr. T. N. Ananthakrishnan and done Post Doctoral Research under the guidance of Professor (Mrs) Silvia Dorn at the SWISS Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) in the Institute of Plant Sciences, Applied Entomology Zurich, Switzerland. Have more 23 years of research experience in basic and applied aspects of Entomology and Plant protection.

Publications

• Research Article   
  A Preliminary Study on the Diversity of Fusarium solani, Causing Dieback Disease of Tea (Camellia sp) and its Alternate Hosts
  Author(s): Kishor Chand Kumhar*, Azariah Babu and Mitali Bordoloi
  
  This study deals with the diversity among isolates of Fusarium solani of different locations of Dooars tea growing areas of West Bengal and its alternate host range. This pathogen causes dieback disease of tea and adversely affects crop production to the great extent. The pathogen was isolated from diseased tender shoot samples of various locations. These isolates were further, in vitro studied to assess their cultural and morphological variability, using potato dextrose agar medium. Results revealed that isolates exhibited huge variation in mycelial growth rate, texture, color, and sporulation. They produced dull-white, off-white, light pink, and violet-colored colonies. Some isolates produced fluffy whereas others produced flat colonies in plates. KBN-7 showed the highest mycelial growth rate followed by KBF-3, 2, 9, and 1, however, isolates KBF-5, 6, 8.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2471-9315.21.7.201

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