Claim · model-written summary
All five botanical treatments significantly increased seedling establishment relative to control.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- five botanicalse0
- Interactor
- Meloidogyne incognita
Meloidogyne incognitae0pathogen - Outcome
- seedling establishmente1
- Direction
- increasee1
- Comparator
- controle1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

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Verbatim
e0“Meloidogyne incognita infecting tomato with five botanicals”
e1“statistically significant increase in both seed germination as well as seedling establishment in all the treatments when compared with control”
Title
Management of root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita on tomato with botanicals
B. Saravanapriya; Muttucumaru Sivakumar 2005
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- Intervention effect All five botanical treatments significantly increased tomato seed germination relative to control.
- Intervention effect Dry C. gigantea leaf powder seed treatment gave the highest germination, 98.0%.
- Intervention effect Dry C. gigantea leaf powder seed treatment produced 99.6% established seedlings.
- Intervention effect C. gigantea leaf extract root dip reduced soil nematodes by 87.3% at 45 days after transplanting.
- Intervention effect C. gigantea leaf extract root dip reduced soil nematodes by 90.0% at harvest.
- Intervention effect C. gigantea leaf extract root dip produced the lowest gall index of 1.7.
- Intervention effect C. gigantea leaf extract root dip increased tomato fruit yield by 23.9%.