Fig. 4.

Protective effect of water extract from spent mushroom substrate (WESMS) of Lentinula edodes against Phytophthora blight disease of pepper. Phytophthora capsici was inoculated on pepper after treatment with WESMS of L. edodes. The diseases index was checked on pepper for 8 day after inoculation (A) and disease severity was observed after 7 days of inoculation (B). Value represents the mean disease index ± standard deviations of nine replicates for each treatment. The experiment was repeated three times.