Rootstocks for the Management of Bacterial Wilt in Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) in the Coastal Regions of India

Table 1

Incidence of wilt in the rootstock lines, local cultivars/varieties inoculated with R. pseudosolanacearum.

		% of plants wilted
		First evaluation		Second evaluation
S. No.	Rootstock lines/varieties	9 DAI	21 DAI	9 DAI	21 DAI
1	S00019	20 ± 20^b	50 ± 30^ab	20 ± 0^b	90 ± 10^a
2	S00022	10 ± 10^b	30 ± 10^b	20 ± 20^b	30 ± 10^cd
3	S00004	40 ± 20^b	50 ± 30^ab	0 ± 0^b	50 ± 10^bc
4	S00003	0 ± 0^b	20 ± 0^b	20 ± 0^b	30 ± 10^cd
5	TS002257	20 ± 0^b	30 ± 10^b	30 ± 30^b	70 ± 10^ab
6	Surya	ND	ND	0 ± 0^b	0 ± 0^e
7	Taleigao	ND	ND	100 ± 0^a	100 ± 0^a
8	Agassaim	90 ± 10^a	100 ± 0^a	100 ± 0^a	100 ± 0^a
	SE (d)	18.25	25.82	18.03	11.18
	LSD (0.05)	44.67	63.17	41.57	25.78

Mean of 2 replications; 5 plants per replication; inoculum: Log 8 CFU/mL; ND: not done; in a column, values followed by the same letter are not significantly different at 5% level determined by LSD ().