FUSARİOSİS DİSEASE OF FODDER PLANTS

Abstract

Various fungal genera participate in the structural organization of the pathomycobiota of fodder plants. Among these fungi, the species belonging to the genus Fusarium have a wide range of distribution and appear in quite variable biological forms. These fungi lead both saprotrophic and parasitic lifestyles, depending on the conditions encountered in the development process [1]. The disease caused by fungi belonging to the genus Fusarium in fodder plants is usually called fusariosis. Fusariosis pathology settles on fodder plants and manifests itself as seed rot, root rot, leaf wilting, etc. It should be noted that the main source of fusariosis disease is soil. The causative agent of the disease, which enters the soil through the ramins of infectedplants, is directly involved in the transmission of the fusariosis disease is hidden at first, in the second half of the plants vegetation period, the intensity of the pathology increases and the level of virulence increases considerably. As a result, this leads to the reduction of the productivity of fodder plants up to 2 times, as well as to the deterioration of the quality of both the green mass and the seeds.

If we take into account that our Republic is an agrarian country and the cultivated areas of plants are expanding every year, then there is a need to study the growth of species of fungi belonging to the genus Fusarium and the diseases caused by them in the lands where these plants are planted and in the cultivated fodder plants.

Forage farms located in Bilasuvar and Saatli districs were selected as a conventional experimental area for conducting research. Various varieties of alfalfa, including Absheron, Lider, Goyazan, black alfalfa, red alfalfa , etc.