Analysis of Trichoderma Isolates From Different Sugarcane Rhizosphere” Project Report

Abstract

Trichoderma is an important genus of fungi which can be obtained from diverse habitats ranging from different soil types and decomposing organic matters. These are cosmopolitan fungi having no fixed sexual stage and are easily culturable. Besides all other beneficial application of this genus, it possesses antagonistic activities and plant growth promoting activities. They may control other pathogenic fungi such as Fusarium by various mechanisms like mycoparasitism, antibiosis, and competition for space and resources etc. These functional abilities of this genus attract research activities to find out new strains and explore new tendencies of this genus keeping in view all these points this research experiment is focused towards isolating different strains of Trichoderma from Meerut region. 10 samples were collected and processed, out of which 7 strains confirmed the presence of Trichoderma. These strains were further characterized morphologically, physiologically, microscopically and confirmed the strains to be Trichoderma harzianum