Advances in Alternative Measures in Plant Protection

Šunjka, Dragana; Mechora, Špela

doi:10.3390/plants12040805

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“…The economic importance of increasing potato production is obvious as potatoes have various forms of local consumption (e.g., table potatoes, seed potatoes, chips, French fries, and processing potatoes), in addition to its exportation to provide direly needed foreign exchange revenue (Abd-Elgawad, 2020). Since M. incognita-infected plants show stunting in plant growth, leaf chlorosis, and reduction of water uptake and nutrients transport resulting in yield reduction (Niere and Karuri, 2018), it is necessary to develop safe and effective control measure against the RKNs (Šunjka and Mechora, 2023). Many growers use chemical nematicides, however, due to their side effects on the environmental and non-target beneficial species, it is mandatory to find benign and reliable alternative nematicides.…”

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Is Use of Two Trichoderma Species Sole or Combined with a Plant Extract Effective for the Biocontrol Meloidogyne incognita on Potato and Soil Microorganisms Diversity?

Youssef,

El-Nagdi,

Abd- El-Khair

et al. 2023

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Nature-friendly compounds are being explored to substitute chemically synthesized products for safe and effective control of crop pests. This study investigated the effects of Trichoderma viride (Tv) and T. virens (Tvr) as antifungal agents individually or combined with pomegranate peel aqueous extract (PP) on M. incognita infesting potato cv. Spunta. Based on the percentages juvenile reduction in soil at harvest time, the combined treatments of Tv or Tvr with PP recorded 66.8 or 60.5% nematode reductions, respectively, as each fungal agent was applied in soil before planting. However, such reductions were 83.7 and 78.7%, respectively, when Tv or Tvr were used as single treatments indicating more efficacy on M. incognita populations in the absence of PP. All treatments significantly (P ≤ 0.05) increased weights of plant branches and tubers; especially by individual than combined treatments. Biochemical compounds were influenced by different treatments of the tested materials. The diversity and community of aerobic bacteria, spore-forming bacteria and fungi and frequency% of fungi in potato rhizosphere varied among different treatments.

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