10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 2 Issue 3 2011 (July - September) Chilli is an important vegetable and spice crop worldwide and one of the most important vegetables in India. The chief constituent of chilli, Capsaicin has antioxidant, antibacterial and anti-cancerous properties. lessThan i greaterThan Rhizoctonia solani lessThan /i greaterThan that causes damping off disease of seedlings as well as root and stem rot in young transplants, is a major soil borne pathogen of chilli. In the present study, 13 isolates of biocontrol fungi and 4 bacterial strains were evaluated against lessThan i greaterThan Rhizoctonia solani lessThan /i greaterThan using Dual culture technique. Microscopic observations of fungal growth in dual cultures revealed that growth inhibition of the pathogen occurred soon after contact with the antagonist due to the efficient coiling process followed by a substantial production of hydrolytic enzymes. The results show that among the fungal species lessThan i greaterThan Gliocladium virens lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan T. harzianum lessThan /i greaterThan (T8) are the most effective isolates at 25°C and inhibit lessThan i greaterThan R. solani lessThan /i greaterThan mycelial growth by 74.82% and 73.33% respectively. Among the bacterial strains maximum growth inhibition is caused by lessThan i greaterThan P. fluorescens lessThan /i greaterThan P.f.1 (73.33%) followed by lessThan i greaterThan P. fluorescens lessThan /i greaterThan P.f.2 (62.22%). Abhinditi Malhotra, Tripti Agarwal And P.C. Trivedi Capsicum annuum, Rhizoctonia solani, Trichoderma harzianum, Dual culture. 288-292