Claim · model-written summary
Antagonist treatment improved cucumber leaf width and dry weight.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse1 - Treatment
- antagonistse0
- Outcome
- leaf length and width, and dry weighte0
- Direction
- improvementse0
- Comparator
- uninoculated plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“treatment of the plants with the antagonists promoted growth characteristics of plants compared to uninoculated plants. This included improvements in shoot and root lengths, leaf length and width, and dry weight.”
e1“Pythium-induced damping-off of cucumber”
Title
Badriya Khalfan Al-Shuaibi; Elham Ahmed Kazerooni; Dua’a Al-Maqbali; et al. Journal of Fungi 2024. doi:10.3390/jof10040284
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect T. ghanense inhibited Pythium mycelial growth by 44.6% in vitro.
- Intervention effect T. citrinoviride inhibited Pythium mycelial growth by 31.3%.
- Intervention effect The antagonists caused severe morphological malformations in pathogen mycelia.
- Intervention effect Biocontrol treatment yielded over 90% surviving cucumber plants versus zero controls.
- Intervention effect Antagonist treatment improved cucumber shoot and root lengths and leaf length.
- Recommendation The authors propose these Trichoderma species as alternatives to synthetic fungicides for cucumber pathogens.