Antifungal Evaluation Of Edible Coating Agent Against Fusarium Oxysporum On Tomato

authored by

Zahir Shah Safari, Associate Professor Phebe Ding, Ashuqullah Atif, Mohammad Wali Salari, Siti Fairuz Yusoff

Abstract

Fusarium fruit rot is caused by Fusarium oxysporum is one of the damaging postharvest losses in tomato production. Synthetic pesticides are
widely and repetitively used to control this disease, unfortunately, it lead to detrimental effects on human health, environment and increase fungal
resistance. This study aimed to identify Fusarium oxysporum by both morphological and molecular characterization that caused tomato fruit rot, as well as
to study the effects of edible coating agents in vitro towards Fusarium oxysporum mycelium growth. In this study, pathogenicity test showed Fusarium
oxysporum is most sever fungi with disease severity 72%, as well as among coating agents 5% CaCl2 was able to inhibited mycelium growth of Fusarium
oxysporum up to 53.5% and 15 mM vanillin up to 76.68%. This study proved that 15 mM vanillin has a potent natural antifungal agent against Fusarium
oxysporum mycelium growth.

External Organisation(s)

Kabul University
Helmand University
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

Type

Article

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH

Volume

10

No. of pages

12

ISSN

2277-8616

Publication date

25.02.2021

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being