Comparative Effectiveness of Various Fungicides in Managing Mustard Clubroot Disease Caused by Plasmodiophora Brassicae

Year : 2026 | Volume : 15 | Issue : 01 | Page : 1 11
    By

    H Rahman,

  • A Akter,

  • M M Rahman,

  • M M Islam,

  1. Senior Scientific Officer, Horticulture Research Centre (HRC), Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS), Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Jamalpur-2000, Bangladesh
  2. Senior Scientific Officer, Horticulture Research Centre (HRC), Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS), Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Jamalpur-2000, Bangladesh
  3. Principal Scientific Officer, Plant Pathology Division, Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS), Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI),, Jamalpur-2000, Bangladesh
  4. Principal Scientific Officer, Plant Pathology Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI),, Joydebpur, Gazipur-1701, Bangladesh

Abstract

The experiment was accomplished to find out which fungicide or fungicides work best against clubroot disease and how well they protect mustard plants. It also looked at how these fungicides affect the yield and other important growth factors of mustard. The study took place in the research field and lab of the Plant Pathology Division at the Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS), Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), located in Jamalpur-2000, Bangladesh, during the Rabi season of 2024-2025. The experiment took place both in natural field settings and in a controlled lab environment. The study includes 8 (eight) treatments, namely, T1= Acrobat MZ (Dimethomorph + Mancozeb) @ 2 g/L, T2= Ridomil Gold MZ 68 WG (Mancozeb + Metalaxyl) @ 2 g/L, T3= Dolochune @ 5 t/ha, T4=Luna sensation 50 SC (Fluopyrum + Trifloxystrobin) @ 2 ml/L, T5 = Amistar Top 325 SC (Azoxystrobin + Difenoconazole) @ 2 ml/L, T6= Nativo 75 WG (Tebuconazole + Trifloxystrobin) @ 2 g/L, T7= Blitox 50 WP (Copper oxychloride) @ 2 g/L and T8= Control. BARI Sarisha-14 was used in this study as test variety. In case of field experiment, only 0.59% of infected plants were found in the control treatment (T8) where disease severity is 1 and disease status was a few small clubs in the infected plants. Other treatments had no infection (no clubbing). These findings indicate that fungicides application for controlling clubroot disease of BARI Sarisha-14 is not effective because very few percentage infections were found in control treatment under natural field conditions. The highest seed yield per hectare (1768.52 kg) noted in the T7 treatment followed by the T8 treatment (1720.37 kg), T1 and T2 treatments (1703.70 kg). These findings indicate that although seed yield performance exhibits significant variations among the treatments but only one treatment showed better performances compared to control. On the other hand, two treatments showed at par seed yield performance with the control and four treatments showed inferior performance to control that might be due to the uneven population and land heterogeneity. In case of lab experiment, compared to the control treatment, six fungicides and one soil amendment reduced clubroot disease incidence and severity after six weeks of inoculation

Keywords: Mustard/rapeseed, Clubroot disease, screening, fungicides, disease incidence (%), disease severity (%), disease severity status, seed yield and artificial inoculation

[This article belongs to Research and Reviews : Journal of Crop science and Technology ]

How to cite this article:
H Rahman, A Akter, M M Rahman, M M Islam. Comparative Effectiveness of Various Fungicides in Managing Mustard Clubroot Disease Caused by Plasmodiophora Brassicae. Research and Reviews : Journal of Crop science and Technology. 2026; 15(01):1-11.
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H Rahman, A Akter, M M Rahman, M M Islam. Comparative Effectiveness of Various Fungicides in Managing Mustard Clubroot Disease Caused by Plasmodiophora Brassicae. Research and Reviews : Journal of Crop science and Technology. 2026; 15(01):1-11. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/rrjocst/article=2026/view=235659


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Regular Issue Subscription Original Research
Volume 15
Issue 01
Received 28/11/2025
Accepted 06/12/2025
Published 06/01/2026
Publication Time 39 Days
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