Abstract:
A 2-year experiment was conducted at wilt sick plot infested with natural occurring Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceris at Adet
Agricultural Research Center in northwestern Ethiopia with an aim to evaluate effective chickpea varieties and fungicides for the
management of chickpea fusarium wilt in order to integrate chickpea varieties and fungicides. Four varieties, namely, Shasho,
Arerti, Marye, and local, two fungicides, namely, Apron Star and mancozeb, and untreated local chickpea were used as treatments.
Treatments were arranged in a factorial combination in randomized complete block design in three replications. (ere were
significant differences at p < 0.05 in the overall mean of fusarium wilt disease incidence, area under disease progress curve %-day,
yield and yield components among varieties and fungicides treatments. Data were analyzed using SAS system version 9.2. (e
results indicated that the maximum disease incidence and area under disease progress curve values 65.62% and 578.5%-day,
respectively, were recorded from untreated local chickpea, while the minimum disease incidence and area under disease progress
curve values 23.41% and 147%-day, respectively, were recorded from Shasho variety treated with Apron Star. (e maximum
biomass and grain yield of 6.71 t/ha and 4.6 t/ha, respectively, were recorded from Shasho variety treated with Apron Star while the
minimum biomass and grain yield of 0.62 t/ha and 0.21 t/ha, respectively, were recorded from untreated local chickpea. (us, the
experiment results suggested that the variety of Shasho treated with fungicide Apron Star caused significant reduction in chickpea
fusarium wilt incidence leading to a corresponding increase in grain yield of chickpea.
