a study was carried out to determine whether naturally-occurring weeds and other cultivated plants in tomato growing regions could act as symptomless reservoirs of infection to fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. a numher of f. oxysporum isolates from weeds and oubergines were used in this investigation. a susceptible tomato cultivar was used for comparison. the plants were artificially ...

to evaluate the effect of glomus mosseae and trichoderma virens, on root knot nematode (meloidogyne spp.) in tomato plants, a greenhouse experiment was performed in a completely randomized design with seven treatments in four replicates. t. virens was isolated from the wheat fields of fars province and cultured on pda medium. g. mosseae provided from the department of horticulture, university o...

broomrape (orobanche aegyptica) is an obligate root parasite causing yield losses in large number of crops such as tomato, sunflower, cucumber, tobacco. in tropical and mediterranean countries from europe, africa and asia. several methods have been suggested for control of this parasite, but most of them are expensive and ineffective. for the efficient control, a better understanding of its int...

this experiment was conducted to determine allopathic effects of cyperus rotundus extracts on the tomato germination. it was a completely randomized design (crd) with four replications, carried out in the laboratory of the agricultural college of university jiroft during 2011. the various test treatments were extracts of cyperus rotundus taken from aerial organs, root, and combinations of both ...

abstract pythium aphanidermatum is one of the most important agent of root and foot rot of cucumber, particularly in the warm humid climate. induction of host resistance by microorganisms or by the synthetic compounds is recently considered as one of the biological control method of disease. trichoderma harzianum bi is a good candidate for induction of resistance in plant against diseases. the ...