Beta
397964

Promising Nematocidal Efficacy of Verticillium lecanii, Hydrogen Peroxide, and Melithorin® against Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne incognita in the Tomato Plant

Article

Last updated: 07 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Plant parasitic nematodes are dangerous pests for many crops including tomatoes. In this work, in vitro and in vivo nematocidal properties of the fungus Verticillium lecanii and hydrogen peroxide were compared to the commercial nematicide, melithorin® (90% fosthiazate), and assessed against the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Results indicated that application of melithorin® (1 mL/L) recorded the highest nematode mortality of 89.4% after 96 hours of in vitro application, followed by hydrogen peroxide (150 mM) and Verticillium lecanii (100%) recording 33.7% and 22.1% mortality, respectively, after the same time of application. In the greenhouse trial, melithorin® recorded the highest reduction in nematode galls, egg masses, females, development stages, and 2nd juveniles by 86.15%, 93.89%, 67.81%, 73.22%, and 79.48%, respectively, followed by Verticillium lecanii recording 44.72%, 44.02%, 43.12%, 51.48%, and 34.54% and then hydrogen peroxide (29.96%, 27.98%, 22.5%, 37.75%, and 29.09%, resp.). Infection alleviation was investigated by measuring infected tomato plant growth parameters, photosynthetic pigments, antioxidant enzymes, total proteins, free proline, total phenols, malonaldehyde (MDA), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) contents. Results indicated that the application of melithorin® followed by hydrogen peroxide and then Verticillium lecanii showed significant improvements in tomato vegetative growth and biochemical markers. Therefore, it is possible to consider Verticillium lecanii and hydrogen peroxide to be cheap and efficient nematocidal treatments.

DOI

10.21608/ejbo.2024.308857.2949

Keywords

Nematocidal, Verticillium lecanii, melithorin®, fosthiazate, H2O2, and tomato

Authors

First Name

Eslam

Last Name

Kandil

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University,11884 Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

eslamkandil@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

mohamed

Last Name

nofel

MiddleName

mahmud

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University,11884 Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

nofal_m_m@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Amer

Last Name

Abdelaziz

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, 11884, Egypt

Email

amermorsy@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-2410-5168

First Name

Mahmud

Last Name

Mansour

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University,11884 Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

mahmud.mansur@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Attia

MiddleName

S

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University,11884 Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

drmohamedsalah92@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

-

Volume

65

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

52219

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-08-01

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

266

Page End

275

Print ISSN

0375-9237

Online ISSN

2357-0350

Link

https://ejbo.journals.ekb.eg/article_397964.html

Detail API

http://journals.ekb.eg?_action=service&article_code=397964

Order

25

Type

Regular issue (Original Article)

Type Code

111

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Botany

Publication Link

https://ejbo.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Promising Nematocidal Efficacy of Verticillium lecanii, Hydrogen Peroxide, and Melithorin® against Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne incognita in the Tomato Plant

Details

Type

Article

Created At

30 Dec 2024