Resistance to early blight of tomato with respect to various parameters of disease epidemics |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Koshlendra Kumar?PandeyEmail author Padma Kant?Pandey Gautam?Kalloo Malay Kumar?Banerjee |
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| Institution: | (1) Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, 1 Gandhinagar (Naria), Post Box 5002, P.O. BHU, Varanasi, 221005, India |
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| Abstract: | Resistance to early blight in the tomato was assessed by examining various parameters of the progress of the disease. Artificial inoculation and the scoring technique were standardized. Test plants were inoculated with 125 cfu/ml of a 12-day-old culture of a pathogenic isolate of Alternaria solani. Screening under artificial conditions was more informative than that under natural epidemic conditions. Tomato cultivars CLN-2071-C, CLN-2070-A, BSS-174, and DTH-7 with resistance expressed as slow blighting against four pathogenic isolates of A. solani, were selected for cultivation in disease-prone areas. Disease intensity increased with the age of plants under the same inoculum load. The area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) was positively correlated with the percentage disease index and negatively with resistance. Calculation of the apparent infection rate (r) was more informative for natural epidemics than for artificial conditions. The sequential apparent infection rate between observation periods was better correlated with disease progress than was the total apparent infection rate between the first and last observations. A double sigmoidal disease progress curve during the same cropping season was characteristic of some varieties when fungal infection took place during the vegetative phase of crop growth. |
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| Keywords: | Early blight Inoculation technique AUDPC Double sigmoidal curve Apparent infection rate Resistance |
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