Claim · model-written summary
Inoculation with Acremonium strictum caused considerable seedling mortality.
- Taxon
- sorghum and pearl millet
Cenchrus americanus
Sorghumt0 - Treatment
- inoculated with Acremonium strictume0
- Interactor
- Acremonium strictum
Sarocladium strictume0pathogen - Outcome
- mortality of the seedlingse0
- Direction
- considerablee0
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Verbatim
e0“Seeds inoculated with Acremonium strictum, Curvularia oryzae, F. equiseti, F. moniliforme and F. subglutinans and sown in sterilized soil, showed considerable mortality of the seedlings.”
t0“Sorghum and Pearl Millet”
Title
Zida Pawinde Elisabeth; Sereme Paco; Leth Vibeke; et al. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 2008. doi:10.3923/pjbs.2008.321.331
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Observation Sorghum seed samples contained 34 fungal species.
- Observation Pearl millet seed samples contained 27 fungal species.
- Observation Phoma sp. infected 95 to 100% of sorghum and pearl millet seed samples.
- Observation Fusarium moniliforme infected 95 to 100% of sorghum and pearl millet seed samples.
- Observation Sphacelotheca sorghi occurred in 75% of sorghum seed samples.
- Observation Tolyposporium ehrenbergii occurred in 33% of sorghum seed samples.
- Observation T. penicillariae occurred in 88% of pearl millet seed samples.
- Observation Sclerospora graminicola occurred in 41% of pearl millet seed samples.
- Observation Claviceps fusiformis occurred in 32% of pearl millet seed samples.
- Intervention effect Inoculation with Curvularia oryzae caused considerable seedling mortality.
- Intervention effect Inoculation with F. equiseti caused considerable seedling mortality.
- Intervention effect Inoculation with F. moniliforme caused considerable seedling mortality.
- Intervention effect Inoculation with F. subglutinans caused considerable seedling mortality.
- Intervention effect Three essential oils inhibited in vitro mycelial growth of all tested fungi by 85 to 100%.
- Intervention effect Three essential oils significantly reduced sorghum and pearl millet seed infection by the named fungi.
- Recommendation The authors recommend field surveys for seed-borne pathogens.
- Recommendation The authors recommend increasing development of plant extracts for seed-borne pathogen control and public awareness of disease management.