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Plant Pathology Journal

Year: 2006 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 233-238
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Khaled Hibar

Mejda Daami-Remadi

Hayfa Jabnoun-Khiareddine

Mohamed El Mahjoub

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Fusarium crown and root rot of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis-lycopersici is a new damaging disease of greenhouse crops in Tunisia. This pathogen was detected in Southern Tunisia, where temperature is usually high. Thus, temperature effect on its development was studied in vitro, on mycelial growth and in vivo, on disease incidence. Temperature effect on mycelial growth of Fusarium oxysporum. sp. radicis-lycopersici, evaluated on Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) media, revealed that this pathogen grows well at temperatures ranged from 20 to 30°C. However, the optimum of mycelial growth was recorded at 25°C (growth speed exceeded 13 mm D-1). On disease incidence, temperature effect was evaluated by breeding inoculated plants under two thermal conditions: 19 and 29°C. Damages observed, after an incubation period ranged between 30 and 50 days, were more important at 19°C than that at 29°C. Indeed, at 19°C, disease incidence exceeded 96% and it was always more than 70%. At 29°C, however, this value didn`t exceed 60% and this by using two inoculation methods.
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