Place 25g of the sieved soil in a petri dish and add 40-50 ml of glass distilled water to make a soil-water suspension, so that 2-3 mm of free water remains above the soil when the particles get settled.
Float twenty leaflets of Albizia falcataria with the adaxial surface in contact with water.
Incubate the plates at 26o (± 2o C) for 72 h.
Surface sterilize the infected baits with 0.1% mercuric chloride for 1 min.
Rinse with three changes of sterile water and plate it on PVPH selective medium (Tsao & Guy, 1977).
This method can also be done in beakers instead of petri dishes.
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