Claim · model-written summary
Copper sulfate reduced powdery mildew disease severity by 81.56%, comparably to commercial fungicide.
- Taxon
- Sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise1 - Treatment
- copper sulfatee0
- Interactor
- Erysiphe betae
Erysiphe betaee2pathogen - Outcome
- disease severitye0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Value
- 81.56% reductione0
- Comparator
- commercial fungicidee0
Verbatim
e0“a significant reduction in disease severity was observed using copper sulfate (81.56% reduction), comparable to a commercial fungicide”
e1“Sugar beet ( Beta vulgaris var. saccharum, L.)”
e2“powdery mildew caused by Erysiphe betae”
Title
M. S. Abbas; Ibrahim S. H. El-Gamal; Samar A. M. Helmy; et al. European Journal of Plant Pathology 2025. doi:10.1007/s10658-025-03155-5
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Docking indicated tight binding of metal sulfates to chitinase.
- Observation Docking estimated MgSO 4 inhibitory binding at -4.03 kcal/mol.
- Observation Docking estimated ZnSO 4 inhibitory binding at -3.88 kcal/mol.
- Intervention effect Foliar nutrient applications improved agronomic traits.
- Intervention effect Foliar nutrients increased root yield by 38% over untreated controls.
- Intervention effect Foliar nutrients increased total sugar yield by 90% over untreated controls.
- Intervention effect Copper Sulphate increased total phenols by 76%.
- Intervention effect Nutrient sprays increased peroxidase activity up to 0.482 U/min/g.
- Intervention effect Nutrient sprays increased catalase activity up to 0.725 U/min/g.
- Intervention effect Nutrient sprays raised protein content up to 11.29 mg/g.
- Intervention effect Nutrient sprays enhanced proline accumulation up to 3.54 mg/g.
- Recommendation The authors suggest nutrient sprays could replace conventional fungicides for powdery mildew control.
