Table 1.

Red stripe disease severity index and area under disease progress curve values from sugarcane assay during three evaluation times.

Treatments	Application timing	Disease Severity Index (%)			AUDPC∗∗∗∗
		5 dai	7 dai	9 dai
T1-Mock	-	40.11b∗∗∗	46.25ab	39.90a	272.79b
T2- AgNPs	3 dbi∗	34.07b	41.00a	28.94b	230.29c
T3- AgNPs	2 dai∗∗	40.70b	43.08a	38.24a	266.85bc
T4- AgNPs	5 dai	47.59a	50.49a	43.32a	310.87a
P =		0.0086	0.1177	0.0015	0.0091

Mock: positive infection control.

AgNPs: silver nanoparticles.

^∗days before inoculation.

^∗∗days after inoculation.

^∗∗∗Means in each column followed by the same letter are not significantly different (LSD, P = 0.05).

^∗∗∗∗Area under disease progress curve.