Research Article

Enhanced Soil Solarization against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici in the Uplands

Table 4

Effect of solarization with regular polyethylene (PE), double regular polyethylene (DPE), and virtually impermeable films (VIF) on tomato plant fresh and dry weights (g plant−1).

Treatments20082009
         Weight (g plant−1)
FreshDryFreshDry

CK88.1* c11.6 b97.6 b13.2 b
PE121.2 b16 a143 a19.3 a
DPE171.7 a18.6 a172.7 a23.3 a
VIF138.2 a18.2 a 157.1 a21.2 a

LSD ( )37.24.845.36.1

*Data are means of fifteen replicates; means followed by the same letter in colums are not significantly different according Fisher LSD test at ( ).