Essential Oils as Biocontrol Agents of Early and Late Blight Diseases of Tomato under Greenhouse Conditions

Table 8

Effects of the pathogen on growth and yield parameters of tomato.

Pathogens	Tomato growth and yield parameters
	Branch number	Days to flowering	Fruit number	Fruit weight
Alternaria solani	3.788^a	50.767^a	7.325^a	40.828^a
Phytophthora infestans	3.346^a	49.659^a	6.563^a	33.357^b
Pr > F	0.058^NS	0.737^NS	0.209^NS	<0.0001
SE	0.159	2.313	0.420	0.811

Means followed by the same letter within the column are not significantly different at ; SE: standard error; NS: not significant.