EFFECTS OF Trichoderma SPP. ON GROWTH AND YIELD CHARACTERS OF BARI TOMATO-14

The experiment was carried out in Department of Hortiuclutre, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, during mid-January 2015 to end April 2015, to evaluate the performance of Trichoderma spp. on growth and yield of BARI tomato-14. Four Trichoderma treatments were performed, for instance,  T₀, 0 Control; T₁, 100 g/m²; T₂, 200 g/m² and T₃, 300 g/m² in Randomized Completely Blocked Design (RCBD) with three replications. All characters of tomato plant showed significant variation among Trichoderma treatments. However, a higher percentage of survival observed in 100 g/m² and lower was controlled. On the other hand, chlorophyll percentage was maximum for T₂ (69.4%) and minimum (43.2%) was in control (T₀). Moreover, highest yield/plant (3.0 Kg) obtained for 100 g/m² treatments of Trichoderma and lowest (1.0 Kg) was for control.