Effect of Cow Urine on the Growth Characteristics of Fusarium lateritium, an Important Coffee Fungus in Zimbabwe

Table 1

Effect of different concentrations of cow urine, copper oxychloride, and distilled water on the growth characteristics of F. lateritium.

Treatment	Conidial germination (%)	Germ tube length (𝜇m)	Mycelial growth rate (mm/day)	Sporulation (conidia/mL water × 10^3)
+ve cntrl*	10.00^b	10.70^b	0.00^a	2.75^a
500 𝜇L/mL	18.72^c	19.23^d	3.92^e	44.50^b
300 𝜇L/mL	23.33^cd	24.18^e	3.83^e	44.50^b
200 𝜇L/mL	13.94^b	15.05^c	2.67^c	137.25^c
100 𝜇L/mL	23.94^d	18.77^cd	3.38^d	152.00^c
standard	0.67^a	2.87^a	0.79^b	0.00^a
−ve cntrl**	95.7^e	32.85^f	3.88^e	313.00^d
𝑃 value	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
CV%	15.2	18.5	14.0	35.3
L.S.D.	4.745	3.829	0.4313	35.151
s.e.m.	4.049	3.267	0.3680	12.368

abMeans in the same column with different superscripts are significantly different. Superscripts are arranged in ascending order of the means in each column.
∗Undiluted urine, ∗∗distilled water.