Efficacy of fungicides and bioagents against Colletotrichum melongenae causing fruit rot of Brinjal

The efficacy of eight fungicides and seven bioagents (fungal and yeast) was assayed in vitro against Colletotrichum melongenae causing fruit rot of brinjal. Among the eight fungicides, carbendazim (0.1%), propicollazole (0.1%) and hexaconazol (0.1%) were found most effective, which inhibited cent per cent growth of Colletotrichum melongenae followed by thiophanate methyl (0.1%), captan (0.25%) copper oxychloride (0.25%), chlorothalonil (0.25%) and mancozeb (0.25%) with 82.22, 80.56, 71.11, 70.0 and 32.22 percent growth inhibition over control respectively. Among the seven bioagents tested, Saccharomyces cervisae yeast straill-2 recorded highest growth inhibition 85.56% followed by yeast strain-I, T. harzianum, T. longiforum, T. viride, T. hamatum and T. koningii with 82.78, 75.00, 65.56, 53.89, 51.22 and 45.56 percent growth inhibition over control respectively.