Table 4.
Treatment | Tubers’ Number/Plant | Weight of Tubers (g/Plant) | Latent Infected Tubers % |
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Soil infection (control) | 4.4 ab | 83.4 c | 96.0 a |
AV | 4.6 ab | 123.6 a | 54.0 e |
BAV | 5.8 a | 93.0 b | 62.0 de |
SAV | 4.4 ab | 92.0 bc | 73.6 cd |
SBAV | 3.4 ab | 92.6 b | 70.3 de |
DCAV | 3.6 ab | 94.0 b | 74.3 cd |
SV | 3.8 ab | 51.2 e | 100.0 a |
BV | 4.2 ab | 61.4 d | 92.0 ab |
SBV | 3.0 ab | 54.6 de | 91.0 abc |
DCV | 2.8 b | 57.4 de | 95.0 a |
The whole culture of the avirulent strain (AV), the boiled whole culture of the avirulent strain (BAV), supernatant of the avirulent only (SAV), boiled of avirulent supernatant only (SBAV), dead avirulent cells only (DCAV), virulent supernatant only (SV), boiling of the whole virulent culture (BV), boiled of virulent supernatant only (SBV), dead virulent cells only (DCV). Different letter(s) in the same column indicates significant variances based on Tukey’s test at p ≤ 0.05.