Claim · model-written summary
The most effective integrated treatment achieved 81.54% disease control efficacy.
- Taxon
- Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- soil application of spent mushroom substrate + seed treatment with T. harzianum + foliar application of 2% boric acide4
- Interactor
- Rhizoctonia solani
Rhizoctonia solanie0pathogen - Outcome
- disease control efficacye7
- Direction
- increaseinferrede7
- Value
- 81.54%e7
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.


Verbatim
t0“Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)”
e0“Black scurf disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani”
e4“The most effective treatment comprised soil application of spent mushroom substrate + seed treatment with T. harzianum + foliar application of 2% boric acid”
e7“achieving 81.54% disease control efficacy with a Black Scurf Disease Index of 3.53 compared to 21.49 in controls”
Title
Dasari Devi Indrani; S.K. Biswas; Anju Shukla; et al. Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology 2025. doi:10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i82786
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect In vitro, 3% boric acid inhibited the growth of Rhizoctonia solani by 89.87%.
- Intervention effect In dual culture, Trichoderma harzianum inhibited the growth of Rhizoctonia solani by 85.24%.
- Intervention effect The most effective integrated treatment significantly improved potato germination (89.70%).
- Intervention effect The most effective integrated treatment significantly increased potato plant height to 61.3 cm at 63 DAS.
- Intervention effect The most effective integrated treatment significantly improved potato yield to 10.9 kg per plot.
- Intervention effect The most effective integrated treatment gave a 91.22% yield increase over untreated controls.
- Intervention effect The most effective integrated treatment reduced black scurf disease incidence to 15%.
- Intervention effect The most effective integrated treatment reduced black scurf disease severity to below 12%.
- Intervention effect The most effective integrated treatment lowered the Black Scurf Disease Index to 3.53, against 21.49 in controls.
- Recommendation Integrated biological and chemical management is an effective sustainable alternative to conventional chemical control of black scurf.