author(s)
Manish Kumar, Ramesh Chand, Vipin Kumar Verma, Shyam Babu Gautam and Himanshu Verma

abstract
The survey conducted to know the alternate weed host of rice root-knot nematode showed that out of 465 sample collected from both rice and wheat field of metrology farm, GPB field and the Jorium 50 samples collected from rice crop and 80 sample wheat field were found free from any nematode sample while 210 and 79 samples was observed to be infected with the larvae and galls were recorded ransing from 3-19 on the root of rice plant and 1-3 gallls per plant on wheat the decomposed plant leaves of wheat botanicals was used @5, 10 and 15g/kg soil in nematode infecting soil containing 3 larvae/ g soil.