Table 3.

Disease assessment of sunflower plants in response to infection with R. solani and/or colonization with R. irregularis (28 days after inoculation with R. solani).

Treatment *	Disease Incidence (%)	Disease Severity (%) **
C	0 c	0 c
M	0 c	0 c
P	96.7 ± 3.7 a	58.3 ± 2.8 a
M+P	53.3 ± 3.5 b	28.3 ± 2.7 b

C = untreated control, M = colonized with R. irregularis, P = infected with R. solani, and M+P = colonized with R. irregularis and infected with R. solani. * Values of each column followed by the same letter are not significantly different according to Tukey’s HSD test (p ≤ 0.05), each value represents the mean of four replicates ± SD. ** Disease severity was estimated according to Carling et al. [24].