Studies on the life cycle of Meloidogyne graminicola on rice and wheat crop

Abstract

The experiment work was carried out at Narendra Deva University of agriculture and technology, Narendra Nagar (Kumarganj), Ayodhya (U.P.) during the year 2016-2017. Studies on the management of rice root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne graminicola revealed that the larvae of M. graminicola complete their life cycle within 20 days on rice plant var. Jaya and take 23 days on wheat variety PBW-154, further is also revealed that wheat varieties support less number of nematode populations as compared to the rice varieties under Studies.