Table 3: Effects of treatments (S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5) on disease severity in Faba bean plants inoculated with Rhizoctonia solani.
| Treatments |
Brown Faba bean |
White Faba bean |
|
Disease rating (0–4) *
|
Disease index (%)**
|
Disease rating (0–4)*
|
Disease index (%)**
|
| S1 |
3 |
75 |
2,9 |
72,50 |
| S2 |
3 |
75 |
2,7 |
67,50 |
| S3 |
2,9 |
72,50 |
2,3 |
57,50 |
| S4 |
2,7 |
67,50 |
2,1 |
52,50 |
| S5 |
1,8 |
45 |
1,4 |
35 |
*Disease rating based on the scale of 0 – 4.
** Disease Index was calculated from Ʃ (number of plants of a given disease rating × disease rating) × 100/ 4 (total number of plants rated) × 100.