Research Article

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

Table 9

Correlation between disease severity, growth, and yields of tomato plants.

VariablesDisease severityLeaf numberPlant heightBranch numberDays to floweringFruit numberFruit weight

Disease severity−0.610−0.869−0.778−0.657−0.690−0.945
Leaf number−0.7380.7380.7340.5150.7450.751
Plant height−0.6420.6700.8410.6100.8330.935
Branch number−0.202−0.260−0.2930.4630.6660.830
Days to flowering0.013−0.1850.251−0.1730.6290.746
Fruit number−0.6800.4530.5590.0850.2410.782
Fruit weight−0.8340.5680.5430.117−0.0420.579

Values in bold are different from 0 with a significance level alpha = 0.05. The upper and the lower values represent the effect of P. infestans and A. solani inoculation, respectively.