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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Effect of Lysobacter enzymogenes strain ch3B10 (Ba) and the fungicide Benlate® on the linear growth (cm) of two Fusarium oxysporum isolates after 3 and 5 days of incubation and inhibition % (I)

From: Efficacy of the bacterium Lysobacter enzymogenes strain ch3B10 as a new biocontrol agent on the pathogenic fungi Alternaria solani and Fusarium oxysporum under laboratory conditions

Treatments

Isolate 1

Isolate 2

3 days

I**

5 days

I

3 days

I

5 days

I

Check*

3.4 a

0.0

9.9 a

0.0

3.5 a

0.0

10.0 a

0.0

Ba (CFU/ml)

 2 × 103

2.4 b

29.4

6.9 b

30.3

2.7 b

22.9

7.4 b

26.0

 2 × 106

1.8 c

47.1

3.6 c

63.6

1.6 c

54.3

4.2 c

58.0

 2 × 107

1.4 cd

58.8

3.0 c

69.7

1.3 cd

62.9

3.5 c

65.0

 2 × 108

1.0 de

70.6

1.0 d

89.9

0.9 de

74.3

0.9 d

91.0

 Benlate® 0.50 (µg/ml)

0.5 e

85.3

0.5 d

93.9

0.5 e

85.7

0.6 d

94.0

  1. *Untreated plates. I** = 1 − [diameter of growth zone in the test plate/diameter of growth zone in the control (check) plate] × 100. Data are averages of 10 replicates. Values, within each column, followed by the same letter(s) are not significantly different at (P ≤ 0.05)
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