Pectinolytic and Cellulolytic Enzymes Enhance Fusarium compactum Virulence on Tubercles Infection of Egyptian Broomrape
Figure 1
Pectinase enhanced F. compactum infection of broomrape growing on tomato roots. Correlation between tubercle mortality of broomrape and fungal inoculum level with • or without ∘ pectinase (a) 3.84 × 105; (b) 3.67 × 106 propagules ml−1. Tubercle mortality is represented by percentage of dead tubercles (dark brown, soft to touch, rotten) compared to the total number of tubercles present on plant roots at the time of inoculation. The trial was conducted twice, each treatment with three replications.
