Vol. 7, Issue 8, Part I (2025)

One of the major pulse crops cultivated in temperate, sub-tropical and tropical climates worldwide is the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Chickpea is known to affect by many fungal, bacterial and viral diseases. Among them, chickpea collar rot occurs in moderate to severe form in Gujarat state. Looking to the symptomatology, affected seedlings turn yellow, upon uprooting seedlings show rotting at the collar region which covered with whitish mycelial strands. A white mycelial coating can be seen on the tap root of completely dried seedlings and produced mustard grain sized light to dark brown structures known as sclerotia. Evaluation of different fungicides, bioagents and soil amendments against Sclerotium rolfsii under field condition and showed that all the treatments were effective as compare to control. Carboxin 37.5 + thiram 37.5 WS showed minimum disease incidence (6.22%) with maximum disease reduction over control (75.00%) whereas, neem cake treatment recorded maximum per cent disease incidence of (20.85%) with minimum disease reduction over control (16.67%). The corresponding maximum seed yield (1360 kg/ha) was observed in carboxin 37.5 + thiram 37.5 WS with per cent seed yield increase over control of 19.77 per cent whereas, control treatment exhibited minimum seed yield (1091 kg/ha).