Mitigation of Abiotic and Biotic Stress Using Plant Growth Regulators in Rice

Split plot design experiments were conducted to assess the performance of growth regulating compounds for mitigating moisture stress and incidence Brown Plant Hopper (BPH) in rice. The main treatments (4) comprised free control (M1), during panicle initiation stage alone (M2), flowering (M3), both stages (M4). sub-plot (5) foliar application including chlormequat chloride at 200 ppm (S1), mepiquat (S2), brassinolide 0.1 (S3), pink pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFM) 1% (S4), no spray (S5). reduced plant attributes registered under stages. spraying PPFM or led better than other treatments. Also, brought down population BPH a considerable level years experiments. This suggests that post-flowering helps mitigate ill effect incidence.