Virology & Mycology
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Department of Crop and Environmental Protection, Federal University of Agriculture, PMB 2373 Makurdi, Nigeria

Biography

Ebenezer Ekefan currently works at the Department of Crop and Environmental Protection (CEP), Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi. Ebenezer does research in Botany, Microbiology and Mycology. Their current project is 'USAID funded Groundnut Technology Upscaling Project in Nigeria'.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Potential for Biological Control of Postharvest Fungal Rot of White Yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir) Tubers in Storage with Trichoderma harzianum
  Author(s): Victor Iorungwa Gwa* and Ebenezer Ekefan
  
  Potential of Trichoderma harzianum for biological control of postharvest fungal rot of white yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir) tubers in storage was studied. Pathogenicity test revealed the susceptibility of healthy looking yam tubers to Aspergillus niger, Botryodiplodia theobromae and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonganae after fourteen days of inoculation. Treatments comprising A. niger, B. theobromae and F. oxysporum each paired with T. harzianum and were arranged in completely randomized design and stored for five months between December, 2015 and April, 2016 and December, 2016 and April, 2017. Results revealed that tubers treated with the pathogenic fungi alone caused mean percentage rot of between 6.67% (F. oxysporum) and 22.22% (A. niger) while the paired treatments produced only between 2.22% (T. harzianum X F. oxysporum) and 6.67% (T. harzianum X A. niger). In the second year of .. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-0517.21.10.210

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