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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2025

Integrating grafting and bio-inputs for sustainable management of root knot nematode,

Seenivasan Nagachandrabose, Mookiah Shanthi, Sankaran Pagalahalli Shanmugam, Thiyagarajan Elaiyabharathi, Radhakrishnan Sharmila, Kandasamy Devrajan, Ravishankar Manickam, Ramasamy Srinivasan

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  1. Biological Control of Tomato Root Rot Caused byJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Seenivasan NagachandraboseDepartment of Nematology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Mookiah ShanthiCentre for Plant Protection Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Sankaran Pagalahalli ShanmugamDepartment of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Thiyagarajan ElaiyabharathiDepartment of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Radhakrishnan SharmilaDepartment of Nematology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Kandasamy DevrajanDepartment of Nematology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Ravishankar ManickamWorld Vegetable Center South and Central Asia, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Ramasamy SrinivasanWorld Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Tainan City, Taiwan.

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Introduction: Root-knot disease in tomato, caused by Methods: The commercial F1 hybrid Shivam® tomato was grafted onto bacterial wilt-resistant eggplant rootstocks, EG 203 and TS 03. Two field experiments were conducted with six treatment groups to compare the performance of 'EG 203-tomato' and 'TS 03-tomato' grafts against the non-grafted hybrid tomato, both with and without bio-input applications. The bio-input protocol included soil application of neem cake (250 kg/ha) and soil and seedling drenching at nursery and transplant stages using biocontrol agents (Bacillus subtilis, Results: Results indicated that the 'EG 203-tomato' graft demonstrated strong resistance to M. incognita, while the 'TS 03-tomato' graft remained susceptible, akin to the non-grafted Shivam® hybrid. The EG 203-tomato graft treated with the bio-inputs achieved the highest suppression of Discussion: In both trial locations, 'EG 203-tomato' graft plants enriched with bio-inputs outperformed the non-grafted tomato in growth and yield metrics, achieving greater plant height (54.6-54.7 cm), leaf count (81.3-84.3 per plant), branch count (3.1-3.7) and fruit yield (10.8-11.5 kg/plant). These findings support the recommendation of EG 203-tomato grafts with bio-input management as an effective large-scale strategy for tomato growers combating

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biorational inputshost plant resistanceintegrated nematode managementroot-knot nematodetomato grafts

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