Screening of Cucumis melo L. Cultivars from Iran for Resistance against Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens

Salari, Mohammad

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“…Plant diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens play an important role in the destruction of natural resources in agriculture. Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid ia a soil-borne fungal pathogen that cause charcoal rot, seedling blight, root rot, stem rot, pod rot on more than 500 species of plant (Ahmed et al, 2009) including Cucumis melo (Salari et al, 2012), cowpea (Javaid et al, 2012. Control of such diseases depends mainly on fungicidal treatments.…”

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Fungicidal Activity of Solanum Nigrum and Physalis Angulata Extracts Against Macrophomina Phaseolina, a Fruit Rot Pathogen of Melon (Citrullus Colocynthis (L.) Schrad

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Bosah²

2017

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Acetone and methanol leaf extracts fractions of Solanum nigrum and Physalis angulata at various concentrations (1000, 500, 250, 100, 50 mg/ml) in PDA were tested against Macrophomina phaseolina, a pathogen of fruit rot disease of melon. All the extract concentrations showed significant (P<0.05) activity with dose and species-dependent effect against the phytopathogen. Acetone extracts had superior activity over methanol extracts with 100% inhibition of fungal growth at 500mg/ml for S. nigrum and 1000mg/ml for P. angulata. Phytochemical tests of the extracts revealed the presence of secondary metabolites in varying degrees with high concentrations of flavonoids and tannins which may be responsible for observed fungitoxic activity. The results of this study have uncovered the potentials of the Solanaceous weeds as antifungal agents. We therefore suggest field formulations and trials of these extracts as soil drench in agricultural farms against soil-borne pathogens

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Fungicidal Activity of Solanum Nigrum and Physalis Angulata Extracts Against Macrophomina Phaseolina, a Fruit Rot Pathogen of Melon (Citrullus Colocynthis (L.) Schrad

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2017

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Screening of Cucumis melo L. Cultivars from Iran for Resistance against Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens

Abstract: In this study, we identified sources of resistance to M. phaseolina, M. cannonballus and R. solani isolated from the Sistan region of Iran among a collection of Iranian melon cultivars.

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Fungicidal Activity of Solanum Nigrum and Physalis Angulata Extracts Against Macrophomina Phaseolina, a Fruit Rot Pathogen of Melon (Citrullus Colocynthis (L.) Schrad

Fungicidal Activity of Solanum Nigrum and Physalis Angulata Extracts Against Macrophomina Phaseolina, a Fruit Rot Pathogen of Melon (Citrullus Colocynthis (L.) Schrad

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