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Table 1 Effect of bioagents on growth parameters of tomato plants after inoculation with Alternaria solani under greenhouse conditions

From: Screening and biocontrol evaluation of indigenous native Trichoderma spp. against early blight disease and their field assessment to alleviate natural infection

Treatments

Plant height (cm)

Shoot weight (g)

Root weight (g)

Fresh

Dry

Fresh

Dry

Mancozeb

29.91 ± 1.38 c

3.77 ± 0.71 c

0.76 ± 0.16 b

4.19 ± 0.75 b

0.97 ± 0.33 c

T. atroviride

29.25 ± 1.82 c

3.68 ± 0.79 c

0.69 ± 0.13 b

4.15 ± 0.56 b

1.26 ± 0.23 b

T. harzianum

32.66 ± 1.56 b

6.12 ± 1.31 b

1.5 ± 0.44 a

3.48 ± 0.49 c

0.64 ± 0.15 d

T. longibrachiatum

32.41 ± 2.57 b

4.82 ± 1.23 c

0.79 ± 0.18 b

3.72 ± 0.22 bc

0.72 ± 0.28 d

Infected Ctrl

18.25 ± 1.22 d

2.07 ± 0.63 d

0.28 ± 0.08 c

2.18 ± 0.12 d

0.21 ± 0.08 e

Healthy Ctrl

34.83 ± 1.59 a

10.29 ± 1.24 a

1.67 ± 0.33 a

5.19 ± 0.74 a

1.56 ± 0.16 a

  1. In a column, means followed by a same letter(s) indicate no significant difference between the treatments according to least significant difference at p = 0.05