Esporulação e controle alternativo de doenças causadas por Phytophthora nicotianae em tomate e berinjela

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of extracts and vegetable oils in controlling diseases of Solanaceae caused by Phytophthora nicotianae and its effects on the isolates of the pathogen. The effect of means and methods of cultivation in the sporulation of the pathogen was first studied to enable the inoculations and tests with oils and plant extracts. The first study was to evaluate the influence of various liquid and solid culture media, obtained from plant host tissues and/or indicated in the literature for the cultivation of Phytophthora spp, as well as different light regimes: constant dark (D), 12h alternating light (LD), and constant light (L) and the hydrogen potential in growth and sporulation of P. nicotianae. The mycelial growth was obtained at 10 and 15 days of culture, through the quantification of biomass. The development of the colonies in the agar media was monitored through daily measurement of radial growth. The spore (zoospores/mL) was obtained in different ways in the 10th and 15th day in a Neubauer chamber, and the data transformed to √ x +1. In the agar media, (D) showed the largest growth increases, however means differed in all light regimes, especially those of cassava, eggplant, tomato and vegetable juice (V8), the first two with the largest increases and the last two with the lowest. The light regimes did not significantly affect growth in liquid media with 10 days of incubation. In some ways the presence of light is inversely proportional to the vegetative growth, but was an essential factor for sporulation, since it showed the presence of zoospores only (L) and (LD), except for the V8 medium, where it obtained the highest sporulation in the absence of light (D). Strains, media, and the presence of agar, promoted statistical difference in the number of zoospores/mL in (L) and (LD). More acids culture media induced more sporulation of P. nicotianae and less mycelial growth. The second study was divided in "in vitro" and "in vivo” bioassays aiming to analyse the antifungal and biocontrole effect of vegetable oils and extracts of Syzygium aromaticum and Cymbopogon nardus on fruit and tomato and eggplant seedlings inoculated with P. nicotianae. It was found that the products inhibited the germination of the mycelial growth and zoospores obtained from S. aromaticum at 0,5 μL/ ml and 10% concentrations CAE and EO, respectively. Treatments with C. nardus EO and CAE at 1,0 μL/ ml and 20% respectively, delayed progression of disease in fruit and seedlings compared to inoculated control. It can be inferred that the products obtained from S. aromaticum and C. nardus, have the potential to reduce the attack of this pathogen on tomato and eggplant.