Pseudomonas Fluorescens

**PRODUCT PROPERTIES** **Active Ingredient:** Pseudomonas fluorescens **Finished Product:** Talcum based powdered formulation of Pseudomonas fluorescens **CFU Count:** NLT 1 x _108_ cfu/gm **Functional Uses:** Bio-fungicide #### **Benefits of Pseudomonas Fluorescens** - Pseudomonas fluorescens protect crops from a number of soil borne / seed borne plant pathogens. - It is specific to the plant pathogens and eco-friendly in nature. - It induces resistance in crop plants also. - It helps in controlling pathogenic nematodes present in the soil. - It promotes plant growth by PGR activity. #### **Target Crops:** Vegetable crops, Oilseeds, Cotton, Paddy, Maize, Rice, Pulses, Sugarcane, Ornamental crops Fruit crops. #### **Target Diseases:** - Fusarium oxysporum - Verticillium dahlia - Phytopthora infestans - Pythium aphanidermatum - Rhizoctonia solani - Botrytis cinerea - Sclerotium rolfsii - Xanthomons campestris #### **Method of Application & Dosage of Pseudomonas Fluorescens** - **Seed Treatment:** Mix 20-25 gm formulation in 1 litre of water and applied specially tuber crops like Potato, Sweet potato etc. Shade dry the seeds for 20-30 minutes before sowing. - **Seedlings Treatment:** Dissolve 500 gm formulation in 25 litre of water. Dip seedling root for about half an hour in the suspension and transplant immediately. - **Nursery Seed Bed Preparation:** Mix 500 gm formulation in 10 kg of well-decomposed farm yard manure/compost/vermi compost and broadcast in an acre. - **Drip Irrigation:** Mix 1-2 kg formulation in 100 litre of water and drench the soil in 1 acre. - **Horticulture/Vegetable Crops:** Mix 500 gm formulation in 100 litre of water and drench the soil near the root zone up to 15 – 20 cm depth for collar rot control with high volume sprayer without nozzler or big nozzle. - **Fruit Crops:** Mix 20 – 50 gm formulation per plant in sufficient quantity of farmyard manure/vermi compost/soil of the field and broadcasting the active root zone of the fruit crop.