Fungal Diseases Of Onion And Their Biological Management: A Review

Onion (Allium cepa) is an important crop grown throughout the world. The crop is attacked by many pathogens. Among them fungal pathogens are important limiting factor in the yield and quality of the crop. The present review is mainly focus on important fungal diseases associated with the crop and their eco-friendly and economical means of biological management. The antagonistic effect of various bioagents and antifungal activity of different plant extracts has been studied to control fungal diseases of onion. The present review paper deals with various biological approaches to control onion fungal diseases such as damping off, purple blotch, neck rot, anthracnose, leaf blight, basal rot and onion smut.