Tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum L.) is the most popular vegetable world-wide. Tomatoes crop and yield is suffered every year due to number of pathogenic diseases. Such diseases are caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematode, develop through soil-borne, above-ground infections and in some instances are transmitted through insect feeding. Although some general review on the fungal diseases o...

to evaluate yield and some quantitave and qualitative characteristics of tomato cultivars in warm climate of southern provinces of iran and to determine suitable cultivars for these regions, sixteen cultivars were evaluated in an experiment using randomized complete block design with three replications in minab, hormozgan province. seeds were sown in 105 cells tray cultures containing peat moss...

Tomato wilt disease is one of the most destructive fungal diseases infecting tomato plants in Egypt. The caused by

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is an important member of the Solanaceae family. It is mainly used as food and cash crop globally. Tomato also serves as an ornamental plant in some parts of the world. In urban areas, this crop is included in the foodscaping systems where it is grown in hanging baskets, growing pots and aquaponics for aesthetic and food purposes. Tomato production is m...

Bacterial wilt and grey mould in tomato plants are economically destructive bacterial and fungal diseases caused by Ralstonia solanacearum and Botrytis cinerea, respectively. Various approaches including chemical and biological controls have been attempted to arrest the tomato diseases so far. In this study, in vitro growths of bacterial R. solanacearum and fungal B. cinerea were evaluated usin...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important vegetable crop worldwide. Often times, its production is hindered by fungal diseases. Important fungal diseases limiting tomato production are late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, early blight, caused by Alternaria solanii, and septoria leaf spot, caused by Septoria lycopersici, fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporium fsp. oxysporium, ...

conclusions decreases of tc, ldl and tg may be related to tomato antioxidant effect. this course in human required more investigations. results results showed that in chol group, all lipids increased significantly (p < 0.05) except hdl compared to the control group. tomato and tomato paste supplementation decreased tc, ldl and tg concentration significantly (p < 0.05) compared to chol group. to...

Producing tomato is a daunting task as the crop of tomato is exposed to attacks from various microorganisms. The symptoms of the attacks are usually changed in color, bacterial spots, special kind of specks, and sunken areas with concentric rings having different colors on the tomato outer surface. This paper addresses a vision sensing based system for tomato quality inspection. A novel approac...