Technology Package of Bacillus Strain for Plant Growth Promotion and Control of Phytopathogenic Fungi

Bacterial consortium of Bacillus strains as biopesticides to control phytopathogenic fungi and promote plant growth.

The products are useful as plant growth enhancer and biofungicide for seed, soil and foliar applications, such that it promotes plant growth, ensures uniformity of plant germination, development and maturity, successfully competes with resident microbial populations, enhances plant beneficial microbes in the rhizosphere, competes with disease causing microbes.

Individual strain or in consortium showing phytopathogenic fungi controlling activity, abiotic stress tolerating capability, ability to stimulate plant growth, and induce systemic resistance in plants to diseases caused by phytopathogenic organisms, having highly efficient root colonization capacity and long shelf life was developed.
The isolates are useful in a method of imparting to plants protection against plant pathogens and promote plant growth by applying them to plants, plant seeds, or soil surrounding plants under conditions effective to impart disease protection and plant growth of the plants or plants produced from the plant seeds.