Claim · model-written summary
T. harzianum may serve as a possible biocontrol agent in the future.
- Taxon
- tomato plants
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Outcome
- possible biocontrol agente7
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Verbatim
t0“tomato plants”
e0“the cause of early blight on tomato plants”
e7“In vitro findings using several methodologies indicate that T. harzianum was the most effective in suppressing A. solani growth. It may serve as a possible biocontrol agent in the future”
Title
Sujood Alhadethy; Rajaa Hamdi Journal of university of Anbar for pure science 2026. doi:10.37652/juaps.2025.161143.1416
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation In the dual culture assay, Trichoderma reached a mean diameter of 80.00 ± 0.71 at 7 days.
- Observation Alternaria solani reached its largest diameter of 25.00±0.71 at 4 days in the dual culture assay.
- Observation Alternaria solani diameter decreased to its lowest value of 10.20±0.66 at 7 days.
- Association The age of the Trichoderma filtrate and the incubation period had significant effects on A. solani colonies.
- Intervention effect Extracts of T. harzianum had significant cytotoxic effects toward A. solani.
- Intervention effect Chitinase activity of T. harzianum culture medium was 2.87 compared with 0.021 in the non-Trichoderma control.
- Intervention effect Glucanase activity of T. harzianum culture medium was 1.68 Units/mL compared with 0.013 Units/mL in the non-Trichoderma control.
- Intervention effect Trichoderma filtrate treatment increased tomato PAL, PPO and POD activities compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Trichoderma filtrate treatment increased tomato CAT activity compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Trichoderma harzianum was the most effective in suppressing A. solani growth in vitro.