Glasnik Zaštite Bilja, Vol. 40 No. 6, 2017.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31727/gzb.40.6.5
Influence of vermicompost tea on the late blight of tomato appearance
Matea Mlatković
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku
Jasenka Ćosić
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku
Mirjana Brmež
orcid.org/0000-0001-5844-9546
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku
Josipa Puškarić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5118-6234
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku
Karolina Vrandečić
; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Poljoprivredni fakultet u Osijeku
Abstract
Ecological vegetable cultivation uses organic preparations for protection and nutrition of plant. Tomato is one of the most important grown vegetables in our area. For this study tomatoes were planted on the open, development of Phytophthora infestans was monitored and the effect of vermicompost tea on the inten- sity of disease, number and mass of fruit was determined. The treatments were: treatment of tomato with vermicompost tea by applying water to the soil (Vz), by applying water to the soil and spraying the overground part of the plant (Vz + Vp), treatment with fungicide Penncozeb 75 DG (F) and control (K) without application of vermicompost tea or fungicide. Late blight infection had a lower intensity, and the disease index ranged from 0.04 (Vz + Vp) to 0.08 (K). The highest average number of fruits was determined in Vz + Vp treatment, while statistically lowest average number of fruits was determined in control treatment. Treatment Vz + Vp showed statistically the best effect on the mass of fruits, followed by treatments Vz and F, which confirms the positive influence of vermicompost tea compared to untreated tomato.
Keywords
tomato; ecological farming; vermicompost tea; Phytophthora infestans
Hrčak ID:
191116
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2017.
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