Claim · model-written summary
Neem spraying and irrigation significantly increased tomato growth parameters, greatest at eight weeks.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- sprayed and irrigated with aqueous neem extracte0
- Outcome
- growth parameterse0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“There was a significant gradual increase in growth parameters when the plants were sprayed and irrigated with aqueous neem extract with the greatest improvement recorded 8 weeks after sowing.”
t0“tomato early blight”
Title
Control of tomato early blight and wilt using aqueous extract of neem leaves
Naziha M. HASSANEIN; Mohammed ALI; Khayria A. YOUSSEF; et al. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2010. doi:10.14601/phytopathol_mediterr-3085
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Increasing neem extract concentrations progressively suppressed Alternaria solani mycelial growth.
- Intervention effect Increasing neem extract concentrations progressively suppressed Fusarium oxysporum mycelial growth.
- Intervention effect Sprayed 20% neem extract reduced early blight incidence from 53.2 to 42.5% at two weeks.
- Intervention effect Sprayed 20% neem extract reduced early blight incidence from 100 to 79.2% at four weeks.
- Intervention effect Spraying and irrigation with neem extract reduced Alternaria blight severity from 26.8 to 11.4% after two weeks.
- Intervention effect Spraying and irrigation with neem extract reduced Alternaria blight severity from 61.7 to 17.9% after four weeks.
- Intervention effect Neem irrigation of pathogen treated pots produced 19.04% Fusarium wilt incidence and 81% control.