Abstract
An experiment was carried out to check the efficacy of different nursery fertilizers as separate dosage and also as combined dosage against the root rot fungi viz., Macrophomina phaseolina, Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium spp., and root knot nematode (Meloidogyne javanica) on mung bean and okra. Nursery fertilizers showed a significant increase in the plant growth parameters and significant decrease in the infection caused by root infecting fungi and root knot nematodes. Nursery fertilizer NPK was found best in the combination with all other fertilizers like flourish with frutan, flourish with NPK, flourish with urea, frutan with NPK, frutan with urea and NPK with urea to increase the plant growth as well as in the control of root rot and root knot of mung bean and okra plants. Use of nursery fertilizers is necessary for the plants as a food source through which they showed a better plant growth and control the infection of root rot fungi and root knot nematodes.
