Table 4.

Lesion length inside the stalk and on the surface of maize stalks 14 days post inoculation in the greenhouse with eight strains of F. subglutinans and fourteen strains of F. temperatum compared to a water control. Different letters indicate significant differences between treatments (p ≤ 0.05).

Isolate	Lesion Length inside the Stalk (mm)	Lesion Length on the Stalk Surface (mm)
Control
Water	3.4 ± 1 0.4 aA	3.6 ± 0.4 aA
F. subglutinans
Fs 187.1	15.5 ± 1.1 b	10.3 ± 0.5 b
Fs 262.1	16.3 ± 0.5 abc	10.3 ± 0.5 ab
Fs 126.2	22.9 ± 1.1 bc	13.0 ± 0.8 b
Fs 215.6	24.3 ± 0.5 bc	11.2 ± 0.2 b
Fs 209.4st	25.7 ± 0.8 bc	11.5 ± 0.2 b
Fs 261.2	27.8 ± 1.3 c	11.8 ± 0.2 b
Fs 28.4sp	28.0 ± 1.2 c	20.8 ± 0.6 c
MEAN	22.7 ± 1.5 B	13.1 ± 0.6 B
F. temperatum
Ft 18.5	19.6 ± 1.4 b	8.8 ± 0.4 ab
Ft 22.4st	25.5 ± 1.7 bc	8.8 ± 0.3 ab
Ft 184.2	28.2 ± 1.5 bc	20.8 ± 1.3 c
Ft 106.4st	30.2 ± 1.5 bcd	14.2 ± 0.9 bc
Ft 98.4st	30.4 ± 1.4 bcd	16.7 ± 0.8 bc
Ft 65.2	30.5 ± 1.3 bcd	15.8 ± 0.5 bc
Ft 188.2	30.8 ± 1.5 bcd	17.7 ± 1.2 bc
Ft 91.1st	32.3 ± 1.3 bcd	16.2 ± 0.7 bc
Ft 81.4st	33.3 ± 1.7 bcd	16.1 ± 0.3 bc
Ft 127.2sp	33.2 ± 1.2 bcd	18.8 ± 0.9 c
Ft 99.3st	39.0 ± 1.9 cd	19.9 ± 0.9 c
Ft 100.3st	41.1 ± 1.3 cd	12.9 ± 0.7 bc
Ft 50.2	45.4 ± 1.4 d	20.8 ± 1.0 c
MEAN	32.3 ± 1.6 C	15.9 ± 0.9 C

¹ Plus-minus sign (±) represents variation according to standard deviation.