Table 1.
Pseudomonas fluorescens treatments from study areas.
Table 2.
Cultural, morphological and microscopic characteristics of isolated Alternaria solani.
Fig 1.
Cultural and morphological characteristics of isolated Alternaria solani.
(A) Alternaria solani seven- day old colony (obverse), (B) Alternaria solani ten- day old colony (reverse), (C) Alternaria solani hyphae (x40), (D) Alternaria solani conidia (x40).
Fig 2.
Early blight symptoms on an infected tomato leaf and a healthy tomato leaf under greenhouse.
(A) Healthy tomato leaf from greenhouse pot, (B) early blight symptoms on infected tomato leaf from greenhouse pot.
Table 3.
Cultural and morphological characterization of isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Fig 3.
Cultural and morphological characteristics of isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens.
(A) Pseudomonas fluorescens colonies, (B) Pseudomonas fluorescens subculturing, (C) Isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens under ultraviolet light, (D) Microscopic observation of Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Table 4.
Biochemical characteristics of isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Table 5.
Antagonistic activity of isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens, standard check (Mancozeb) and control (standard P.fluorescens) against Alternaria solani with treatments.
Table 6.
Antagonistic activity of isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens, standard check (Mancozeb) and control (standard P. fluorescens) against Alternaria solani with days.
Fig 4.
Mean diameter of radial growth of pathogen in the presence of isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Fig 5.
Mean diameter of radial growth of pathogen in the presence of isolated Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Table 7.
Percent disease incidence for early blight in tomato plants treated with the various antagonists with treatments and days.
Table 8.
Percent disease severity for early blight in tomato plants treated with the various antagonists with treatments and days.
Table 9.
Percent disease index severity for early blight in tomato plants treated with the various antagonists, with treatments and days.
Fig 6.
Effect of bio-control agents on the percent disease incidence for the tomato early blight disease progress curve of marginal mean at the greenhouse.
Fig 7.
Effect of biocontrol agents on percent disease severity for tomato early blight disease progress curve of marginal mean at greenhouse.
Fig 8.
Effects of bio-control agents on the percent disease index for the tomato early blight disease progress curve of the marginal mean at the greenhouse.
Table 10.
Correlations between tomato early blight disease growth parameters.