In Ethiopia, the spice Korarima is one of the most important cash crops. The Jimma agricultural research institute recently gathered a large number of Korerima genotypes from Ethiopia's key growing regions to analyze genetic variations between genotypes and produce varieties. However, no characterization or genetic variability research has begun in these korerima collections. Thus, character association and path coefficient analysis was performed on twenty-five Korarima germplasm samples collected from various agro-ecological regions of Ethiopia to estimate the extent of correlation between characters at the phenotypic and genotypic levels, and compare the direct and indirect effects of the characters on yield. Each incomplete block has a 5 × 5 simple lattice design with two replications and five accessions in Jimma agricultural research center during the 2020 main cropping season. Nine plants were planted in each plot, with a row and plant spacing of 1.8 m. The genotypes were grown under Sesbania shade trees. At both the genotypic and phenotypic levels of significance, yield per plant had a positive and significant relationship with the total tiller, bearing tiller, number of leaves per stem, number of capsules per plant, the weight of fresh capsule, and length of dry capsule, indicating the possibility of correlated response to selection. The number of capsules per plant had the greatest direct effect on yield, according to genotypic path analysis. This proves that the correlation is real and that direct selection using these features will be quite effective. The diameter of the dry capsule, total tiller, dry capsule weight, and fresh capsule length all have a direct positive effect on yield. Varietal, environmental, and edaphic elements, as well as management practices, might all contribute to the variation. The findings might help with future breeding and quality-improvement efforts.
Background: Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) belongs to the family Solanaceae. In Ethiopia, control of early blight is largely dependent on fungicidal application. There is a research need to identify effective botanical extracts to control Alternaria solani that cause early blight of tomato and for evaluation of plant extracts through different solvents on the target pathogen. Methods: In vitro experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of crude extracts of 16 selected medicinal plants against Alternaria solani. Thus, crude extracts were extracted from medicinal plants with different solvents (methanol, ethanol and petroleum at (25%, 50% and 100%) concentrations. The Alternaria solani was isolated from infected tomato leaves showing early blight symptoms. Evaluation of plant extracts was carried out against Alternaria solani using food poisoned technique on PDA.
Result: Results showed that most of the methanolic extract plants were showed significant inhibition of the mycelial growth as compared to ethanolic and petroleum ether extracts. A higher rate of mycelial reduction was recorded by ethanol extracts of Allium sativum at all concentrations (100%) followed by methanol extracts of Allium sativum at 25%, 50%, 100% concentration (90.02%, 97.01%, 100% respectively). The effectiveness of extracts against Alternaria solani depends on use at the higher concentrations and various solvents. For crude extracts that have shown higher inhibitory effects against Alternaria solani in vitro conditions, actual chemical compounds should be identified. Furthermore, it is also important to evaluate these plants on other microbes, study to test in vivo and to assess their real potential field condition wherever early blight is an important disease of tomato.
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