Chemical control of bacterial leaf blight of rice using antibiotics

Abstract

Studies using antibiotics on the control of bacterial leaf blight disease of rice at the College of Agriculture, Vellayani has shown that Penicillin at 500 ppm gavethe maximum inhibition to the growth of the bacterium in vitro. In in vivo Penicillin or Agrimycin-1 00 (250 ppm) post-inoculation sprays twice at eight days interval were equally effective in lowering the disease intensity.