Abstract
Experiment was conducted to investigate the combined effect of seeds treated with 60Co emmiting gamma rays for 2, 8 and 16 minutes and soil amended with nursery fertilizers like frutan, DAP and urea at 0.01 % and 0.1 dosages for the control of root infecting fungi such as Fusarium spp, Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid and Rhizoctonia solani Kühn in mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) and sunflower (Helianthus annus L.) plants. Both crops showed significant increase in growth parameters like shoot length, shoot weight, root length, root weight, leaf area and germination as compared to control. Complete reduction of root rot fungi of sunflower and mung bean was observed when seeds were treated with gamma rays for 2 minutes and soil was amended with urea, DAP and frutan at 0.1 and 0.01 % w/w.
