TABLE 3.
Effectiveness of DSE fungal isolates on disease reduction, chlorophyll content, growth parameters: shoot dry mass (SDM), root dry mass (RDM), beginning of flowering and fruiting, and number of fruit (NFR) at the end of experiments1.
| Experiment | Tested DSE | Disease reduction (%) | Chlorophyll content (SPAD) | SDM (mg plant–1) | RDM (mg plant–1) | Flower bud initiation (days) | NFR |
| Inorganic soil | Control | 0.00a | 18.70a | 213.00a | 77.51a | 150 | 0.00a |
| infested | Exophiala sp. SK47 | 85.71c | 26.68ab | 1,764.10c | 751.97b | 50 | 7.37c |
| Fusarium | E. pisciphila SK48 | 61.90b | 25.60ab | 1,077.10b | 330.18a | 110 | 2.75b |
| C. chaetospira SK51 | 90.48c | 31.85b | 1,802.88c | 618.30b | 40 | 7.62c | |
| Inorganic soil | Control | NA | NA | 219.88a | 159.53a | 126 | 0.62a |
| non-infested | Exophiala sp. SK47 | NA | NA | 1,724.92c | 699.50b | 43 | 6.37b |
| Fusarium | E. pisciphila SK48 | NA | NA | 1,028.20b | 824.97b | 90 | 3.00a |
| C. chaetospira SK51 | NA | NA | 2,328.08c | 1,357.40c | 37 | 9.25c |
1Means followed by same letter in same column not significantly different at p < 0.05 according to Tukey’s least significant different test (n = 8). NA, not applicable.