Table 3.

Morphological and microscopic alterations in Fusarium verticilloides due to the effect of different concentrations of cell pellet (CP) and the cultural filtrate (CF) of Ochrobactrum ciceri on malt extract agar ( MEA) plates amended with Zn at 7^th day after incubation at 28 °C

Morphological characters	Culture medium containing different concentrations of CP or CF (Without Zn)
	(0%)	(25%)		(50%)		(75%)
	Control	Cell pellet	Cultural filtrate	Cell pellet	Cultural filtrate	Cell pellet	Cultural filtrate
Colony characters
Growth	Highly dense	Light	Light	minute	minute	No growth	Minute
Color	Whitish	Whitish brown	Creamy brown	Creamy	Creamy	–	Whitish
Texture	Cottony	Cottony	Cottony	Cottony	Fused	–	Fused
Pigments	Absent	Present	Present	Absent	Absent	–	Absent
Microscopic characters
Chlamydospores	Absent	Absent	Present	Absent	Present	–	Absent
Microconidia	Present	Clustered	Highly clustered	Highly clustered	Clustered	–
Macro conidia length (μm)	5–20	5–20	5–20	5–20	5–20	–
Macro conidia width (μm)	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	–
Macro conidia septation	6–7	5–6	5–6	4–5	4–5	–
Hypae	Normal	Swollen	Highly swallon	Fairly swallon	Distorted	–
Conidiophore	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	–

Morphological characters	Culture medium containing different concentrations of CP or CF (With Zn)
	(0%)	(25%)		(50%)		(75%)
	Control	Cell pellet	Cultural filtrate	Cell pellet	Cultural filtrate	Cell pellet	Cultural filtrate
Colony characters
Growth	Highly dense	Less minute	Minute	Minute	No growth	No growth	No growth
Color	Whitish	Whitish brown	Whitish	Creamy	–	–	–
Texture	Cottony	Sticky	Sticky	Sticky	–	–	–
Pigments	Absent	Present	Absent	Absent	–	–	–
Microscopic characters
Chlamydospores	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	–	–	–
Microconidia	Less clustered	clustered	Clustered	Clustered	–	–	–
Macro conidia length (μm)	5–20	5–20	5–20	5–20	–	–	–
Macro conidia width (μm)	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	–	–	–
Macro conidia septation	6–7	5–6	5–6	5–6	–	–	–
Hypae	Normal	Distorted	Distorted	Distorted	–	–	–
Conidiophore	Present	Present	Present	Present	–	–	–