Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during winter season of 2009–10 at Jabalpur to assess the effect of clodinafop-propargyl on soil microorganism. The overall influence of different treatments a colony forming unit of Azotobacter at different stages of crop growth, no definite trend could be observed but the population was maximum at harvest stage of the crop. Total bacterial counts also did not reflect any definite trends, whereas a similar trend was found in fungi as well as actinomycetes.