IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/jasjnl/v10y2018i2p148.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effectiveness of Silver Nanoparticles against Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne incognita Infecting Tomato under Greenhouse Conditions

Author

Listed:
  • Ahmed Nour El-Deen
  • Bahig El-Deeb

Abstract

Root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita is the most economically important plant parasitic nematode species that cause serious damage to most agricultural crops including tomato worldwide. Nematicides do not provide long-term suppression of root-knot nematodes, and environmental and human health concerns are resulting in increased restrictions on their use. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) at concentrations of 0.25, 0.5 and 1 mM as a potential nematicide on M. incognita infecting tomato. AgNP was biologically and chemically synthesized by a reaction of silver nitrate with ginger (Zingiber officinale) rhizomes aqueous extract and sodium borohydride, respectively. Results indicated that application of AgNPs improved plant growth and reduced nematode infection in comparison to silver nitrate and control treatments. The highest increment of fresh weight as well as the lowest numbers of galls and egg-masses was obtained when tomato plants was treated with AgNP produced by ginger extract at 1 mM.

Suggested Citation

  • Ahmed Nour El-Deen & Bahig El-Deeb, 2018. "Effectiveness of Silver Nanoparticles against Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne incognita Infecting Tomato under Greenhouse Conditions," Journal of Agricultural Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(2), pages 148-148, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:jasjnl:v:10:y:2018:i:2:p:148
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/download/71627/39989
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/view/71627
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:jasjnl:v:10:y:2018:i:2:p:148. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.