Table 3.

In vitro and in vivo protective effect of purified compound SH2 to control A. brassicicola on seeds of R. sativus.

	In vitro					In vivo
Seed treatment	Seed germination (%)	Healthy seedlings (%)	aFresh weight of seedling (g)	Dry weight of seedling (g)	Seedling vigor	Seed germination (%)	Healthy seedlings (%)	aFresh weight of seedling (g)	Dry weight of seedling (g)	Seedling vigor
Pathogen only	13.3 ± 2.8a	0	0.010 ± 0.01a	0.001 ± 0.01a	16.95 ± 3.7a	10.0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pathogen and mancozeb	50.0 ± 4.0b	46.6 ± 4.8a	0.12 ± 0.05b	0.01 ± 0.02b	567.45 ± 12.2b	60 ± 8.1a	55.5 ± 2.3a	0.16 ± 0.02a	0.015 ± 0.001a	462 ± 5.3a
Pathogen and carbendazim	33.3 ± 3.0c	30.0 ± 2.0b	0.09 ± 0.02c	0.005 ± 0.01a	347 ± 4.9c	20.0 ± 5.0b	33.3 ± 1.0b	0.12 ± 0.05b	0.010 ± 0.002b	113.6 ± 1.7b
Pathogen and compound	80.0 ± 2.5d	83.3 ± 2.5c	0.27 ± 0.05d	0.030 ± 0.001c	1890 ± 5.0d	66.6 ± 0.5c	75.0 ± 2.0c	0.28 ± 0.04c	0.03 ± 0.008c	1264 ± 0.5c
Water	93.3 ± 1.8e	100 ± 0.0d	0.29 ± .07d	0.035 ± 0.007cd	1978 ± 1.5e	83.33 ± 1.6d	100 ± 0.0d	0.34 ± 0.05d	0.039 ± 0.005d	1440 ± 2.3d
Compound SH2 only	100 ± 0.0f	100 ± 0.0d	0.31 ± 0.09d	0.04 ± 0.008d	2350 ± 3.2f	93.3 ± 0.17e	100 ± 0.0d	0.40 ± 0.02e	0.047 ± 0.007e	1805 ± 2.8e

Means followed by different letters with in a column are significantly different; Tukeys HSD, p ≤ 0.05; ^aAverage weight per seedling.