Biological control of postharvest tomato fruit rots using Bacillus spp. and Pseudomonas spp.

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Rot diameters of tomato fruits as affected by artificial inoculation with the different pathogens (ten isolates) at room temperature (25–30 °C)

Isolates number	Mean diameter of rots (cm) after inoculation (days)
Isolates number	3	6	9	12
1	0.0f	1.2cde	2.0d	2.5c
2	2.0b	4.5a	7.0a	7.0a
3	0.0f	0.4e	1.1e	2.0c
4	0.8c	2.2bc	3.4bc	5.0b
5	0.0f	0.0f	0.0g	0.1e
6	0.5e	0.9de	1.8d	2.5c
7	2.6a	5.5a	7.0a	7.0a
8	0.7d	1.8bcd	2.6c	3.9b
9	0.0f	0.0f	0.2f	0.5e
10	0.0f	0.5e	1.2e	1.5d
F. test	**	**	**	**

**Indicate significant differences at p values < 0.01, according to F test. Means followed by the same letter in same column are not significantly different at the 0.05 level, according to Duncan’s multiple range test. The angular transformation was used for resistance to fruit rots percentage as outlined by Snedecor and Cochran (1989)