APPLICATION OF SOME BIOPRODUCTS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION OF GREENHOUSE TOMATO FROM SOIL PESTS

S. Masheva, V. Yankova, I. Tringovska, V. Kanazirska
An experiment with tomato variety Belle F1 was carried out during the period 2006 - 2007 in Venlo type unheated greenhouse at the Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute, Plovdiv. Plants were grown in 1:1 peat:perlite (v/v). The effect both of the bioproducts and of pesticides on the plant protection against to the soil pathogens and root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne arenaria) that were infested artificially to substrate was studied. The tested treatments were bioproducts namely Trihodermin (mycelium of the Trichoderma spp. fungus-antagonist) and BioAkt WG (a.i. Paecilomyces lilacinus spores, strain 251), the pesticides namely Topsin M (a.i. thiophanate-methyl) and Vydate 10 G (a.i. oxamyl) and the Lumbrical vermicompost. It was established that in pathogen presence, the studied plant protection products have an inhibiting effect on root-knot formation (Vydate 10 G, BioAkt WG, Lumbrical) as well as on the soil pathogen attack (Trihodermin, BioAkt WG). An improvement of the growth and reproductive plant manifestations and yield increase was observed. The bioproducts Trihodermin and BioAkt WG, and the Lumbrical vermicompost could be used as en ecological solution for plant protection against the soil pests.
Masheva, S., Yankova, V., Tringovska, I. and Kanazirska, V. (2009). APPLICATION OF SOME BIOPRODUCTS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND PROTECTION OF GREENHOUSE TOMATO FROM SOIL PESTS. Acta Hortic. 807, 765-770
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.807.116
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.807.116
hydroponics crop, bioproducts, pesticides, soil pathogens, root-knot formation, index of infestation
English

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