Claim · model-written summary
Biofungicide or fungicide treatments significantly decreased soil wilt-fungus populations during the crop season.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinume0t0e1e2
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Verbatim
e0“in the biofungicide/fungicide treated plots it gradually and significantly (P=0.05) decreased during the four months of the crop season”
t0“Biological Control of FUsarium Wilt of Chickepa through Seed Treatment with the Commercial Formulation of "Thricoderma harzianum" and/or "Pseudomonas fluorescens"”
e1“The effect of treating seed of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cv. BG 256 with commercial formulations (2 g kg-1 seed) of Trichoderma harzianum and Pseudomonas fluorescens, singly and jointly, to control wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri was examined in chickpea plants growing in microplots under field conditions”
e2“The soil population of the wilt fungus (cfu g-1 soil) in untreated plots increased during the first two months (P=0.05)”
Title
Mujeebur Rahman Khan; F. A. Mohiddin; Sana Khan Phytopathologia Mediterranea 2004. doi:10.1400/14566
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Fusarium wilt decreased chickpea dry weight by 20.
- Intervention effect Fusarium wilt decreased chickpea yield of chickpea by 18%.
- Intervention effect Without wilt, P. fluorescens improved chickpea yield by 36%.
- Intervention effect Without wilt, T. harzianum+P. fluorescens improved chickpea yield by 25%.
- Intervention effect Both biofungicides suppressed chickpea wilt severity significantly.
- Intervention effect T. harzianum+P. fluorescens reduced wilt severity by 66%.
- Intervention effect Carbendazim reduced wilt severity by 51%.
- Intervention effect In wilt-inoculated chickpea, P. fluorescens increased yield by 39% versus inoculated controls.
- Intervention effect In wilt-inoculated chickpea, T. harzianum+P. fluorescens increased yield by 33% versus inoculated controls.
- Intervention effect In wilt-inoculated chickpea, T. harzianum increased yield by 44% versus inoculated controls.
- Intervention effect In wilt-inoculated chickpea, carbendazim increased yield by 20% versus inoculated controls.
- Observation Untreated soil wilt-fungus populations increased during the first two months.
- Intervention effect T. harzianum alone or combined with P. fluorescens gave the greatest decrease in soil wilt-fungus population.
- Association Rhizosphere bioagent populations increased significantly in plots where wilt fungus populations fell.
- Intervention effect Combined treatment increased T. harzianum rhizosphere population by 108–120% relative to pre-plant control.
- Intervention effect Combined treatment increased P. fluorescens rhizosphere population by 65–119% relative to pre-plant control.
- Intervention effect Alone, T. harzianum population increased by 71–96%.
- Intervention effect Alone, P. fluorescens population increased by 46–103%.