10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 10 Issue 1 2019 (January - March) Increased agricultural production is attributed to excessive use of synthetic chemicals during the last century. This has raised a number of ecological and human health problems as most of them are associated with several harmful effects. Drawbacks associated with synthetic fungicides have given way to think of the biodegradable plant products, especially from medicinal plants as their alternative. Plants contain a wide range of antifungal compounds and many of them have been implicated in the natural resistance of several plants against pathogens. The present finding was on the plant lessThan i greaterThan Pluchea lanceolata lessThan /i greaterThan which is used in Indian system of medicine in various diseases. The plant was dried and extracted with methanol by cold percolation. The methanolic extract was assessed against spore germination of plant pathogenic fungi, lessThan i greaterThan Alternaria brassicae, A. melongenae, Curvularia lanata, C. pallescens, Colletotrichum sp., C. musae, Erysiphe pisi, Helminthosporium spiciferum, Ustilage cynodontis lessThan /i greaterThan . lessThan i greaterThan Alternaria melongenae, Colletotrichum sp., Helminthosporium spiciferum lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Ustilage cynodontis lessThan /i greaterThan were the most sensitive as complete inhibition of germination was obsereved in all the concentrations (200, 400, 600, 800, 1000 ppm) of the extract. Similar effect on lessThan i greaterThan Curvularia lanata lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan C. pallescens lessThan /i greaterThan were recorded of 400, 600, 800 and 1000 ppm, whereas lessThan i greaterThan Alternaria brassicae lessThan /i greaterThan did not germinate at 600, 800 and 1000 ppm. However, only 1000 ppm was effective against spore germination of lessThan i greaterThan Colletotichum musae lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Erysiphe pisi lessThan /i greaterThan . The findings thus suggest the possibility of its use for the control of plant diseases under field conditions. PREM SHANKAR PANDEY*1 AND UDAY PRATAP SINGH2 Methanolic extract, Pluchea lanceolata, Spore germination, Antifungal activity. 24-26