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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Effect of various treatments on the disease severity index (DSI) of onion purple blotch disease under greenhouse conditions after inoculation with Alternaria porri (PO-4)

From: Sustainable biocontrol of purple blotch disease in Allium cepa L. by biocontrol yeasts, Pichia kluyveri and Filobasidium wieringae

Treatments

Disease severity index (DSI%)

Before inoculation (G-I)

After inoculation (G-II)

Filobasidium wieringae (Y2)

25.2b

25.1b

Pichia kluyveri (Y4)

17.2c

15.1c

Y2 + Y4

18.6c

11.7d

CK

75.1a

75.5

  1. Values in the same column followed by different letters indicate that means are significantly different from each other according to Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) test at p ≤ 0.05. CK-Control. Group I (G-1) refers to the application of treatments 24 h before inoculation of pathogen on onion plants; Group II (G-II) refers to the application of treatments 24 h after inoculation of pathogen on onion plants
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