Fluctuation of Nematode Populations in some Vegetable Hosts under Drip and Conventional Irrigation Systems | ||
| Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||
| Article 13, Volume 11, Issue 11, November 2020, Pages 595-599 PDF (967.54 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2020.128705 | ||
| Author | ||
| Entsar H. Taha* | ||
| Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Water shortages have increased Egyptian growers interest towards drip irrigation. Conventional and drip, are two types of irrigation systems which wereselected to investigate their effect on the fluctuation of the populations of some plant parasitic nematodes on growth of different vegetable host plants: tomato(Lycopersicon esculentum), eggplant(Solanum melongena), peppers(Capsicum annum), cucumber(Cucumis sativus), and cowpea(Vigna sinenses). The predominant genera of plant parasitic nematodes recovered from soil samples (Pi & Pf) were Meloidogyne, Helicotylenchus, Pratylenchus, Paratylenchus, Rotylenchulus, Hoplolaimus, Tylenchorhynchus,and Xiphinema. On the whole the results showed that, Meloidogyne and Pratylenchus were the most common plant parasitic nematode in the plant hosts (cucumber tomatoeggplant peppers cowpea) and the nematode population were lesser in drip irrigated plants (97.3, 69.0, 87.0, 81.0, 83.3 and 71.3, 46.7, 69.7, 59.0 63.0) respectively, than those of conventional irrigation (104.3, 83.7, 93.0, 85.7, 88.0 and 75.3, 68.0, 80.3, 64.0, 72.3) respectively. We can conclude that, the drip irrigation system can be used as a Strategy of nematode pests in combination with different strategies without greatly affecting on the crop growth. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Population fluctuation; plant parasitic nematodes; drip irrigation; conventional irrigation | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 161 PDF Download: 411 |
||
