Claim · model-written summary
Monthly drenches with 0.5 or 1.0% papaya seed extract significantly reduced Radopholus similis population densities in roots and cinder media.
- Treatment
- monthly drenches with 0.5 or 1.0% PGS CEe1
- Interactor
- R. similis
Radopholus similise1pest - Outcome
- R. similis population densitiese1
- Direction
- reducede1
- Setting
- Greenhouse trialse1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Anthurium cut flowers are an economically important ornamental crop”
e1“Greenhouse trials demonstrated that monthly drenches with 0.5 or 1.0% PGS CE significantly reduced R. similis population densities in both roots and cinder media”
Title
Papaya seed extract for management of Radopholus similis on Anthurium
Lauren Braley; Roxana Myers; Roshan Paudel; et al. Journal of Nematology 2026. doi:10.2478/jofnem-2026-0003
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Monthly drenches with papaya seed extract decreased root lesion severity in anthurium.
- Intervention effect Monthly drenches with papaya seed extract increased leaf production in anthurium.
- Observation Monthly drenches with papaya seed extract caused no phytotoxicity or adverse effects on free-living bacterivorous nematodes.
- Intervention effect The 1.0% papaya seed extract slightly reduced anthurium plant biomass.
- Intervention effect The 0.5% papaya seed extract improved anthurium plant growth and flower production.
- Association Regression analysis linked nematode suppression with enhanced anthurium health.
- Recommendation Papaya seed extract is a sustainable and effective biofumigant for nematode management in anthurium.