Abstract

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is an important legume crop which is getting affected by high yield losses from wilt of chickpea caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri. The present research was carried out to study the effect of different culture media and temperature on mycelia growth and sporulation of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri.  Among eight culture media that were tested and evaluated, the fungus grew the best on Potato Dextrose agar (PDA) and Czapek’s Dox agar media. Growth of F. oxysporum f. sp. ciceri was maximum at 30˚C after seven days of inoculation, which was reduced drastically at below 20˚C and above 30˚C.