101574

INDUCTION OF SYSTEMIC RESISTANCE IN CUCUMBER PLANTS AGAINST POWDERY MILDEW UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS

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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants are liable to infect by many fungal pathogens. However, powdery mildew caused by Erysiphe cichoracearum and Sphaerotheca fuliginea, is a very damaging. Foliar application of cucumber plants cv. Beit Alpha with the fungicide thiophanate - methyl (Topsin 70% WP) as a comparison treatment, potassium silicate (5 m/l), dry yeast (4000 mg/l) and ascorbic acid (100 mg/l), significantly reduced disease severity by 86.00, 68.31, 50.86 and 42.03%, respectively compared with the untreated plants in 2013 season. The same trend was found in 2014 season (86.02, 71.33, 48.06 and 45.27%), respectively. Moreover, the aforementioned treatments significantly increased each of plant height/plant, number of leaves/plant, dry weight/plant and number of flowers as well as yield components (number of fruits/plant and mean of fruits weight/plant). Also, the treatments increased peroxidase activity and total phenolic content. Reduction in disease severity was positively correlated with both of peroxidase activity (R2 = 56.3, P ˂ 0.005) and total phenolic content (R2 = 77.2, P ˂ 0.005). Foliar application with potassium silicate, dry yeast and ascorbic acid at the rate of 5ml, 4000 mg and 100 mg/l induced new pathogenesis related proteins (PR-protein) with various molecular weights in the shoots of cucumber plants upon natural infection with the powdery mildew pathogen. Furthermore, these treatments resulted in a significant increase of N, P, K contents of vegetative shoots.

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10.21608/zjar.2016.101574

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Cucumber, powdery mildew, foliar spray, induced systemic resistance, peroxidase activity, Total phenolic content, pathogenesis-related protein

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Gehad

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Abd El-Wahab

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M.M.

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Veg. Dis. Res. Dept., Pl. Pathol. Res. Inst., ARC, Giza, Egypt

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gehadmoali@gmail.com

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Marawa

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Ismail

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M.

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Veg. Dis. Res. Dept., Plant Pathol. Res. Inst., ARC, Giza, Egypt

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43

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15385

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2016-01-01

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2015-12-17

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2016-01-30

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127

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139

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1110-0338

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Zagazig Journal of Agricultural Research

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INDUCTION OF SYSTEMIC RESISTANCE IN CUCUMBER PLANTS AGAINST POWDERY MILDEW UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS

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22 Jan 2023