STUDY ORGANIC WASTES EFFECT ON VASCULAR FUSARMIC WILT PATHOGEN Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. capsici ON PEPPER

Abstract

Effect of three types of organic wastes cow. sheep, poultry was studied using pepper in decrease pepper wilt disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. capsici in three verities (California Wonder , Local Varity Hot pepper, Local verity sweet pepper). Susceptibility result showed that the three pepper varieties recorded different disease severity where California Wonder was the most susceptible with 0.59 while Hot pepper and sweet pepper did not differ significantly with disease severity (0.15,0.23) respectively. In greenhouse experiment, using three types of organic wastes cow, sheep, poultry caused significant decrease in diseases incidence of where the percentage with sheep wastes was 18.88 % while cow and poultry did not differ significantly. In greenhouse experiment, adding organic wastes improved some of Pepper growth parameter , where poultry wastes significantly increased shoot height in verities California Wonder verity 57.4 cm/plant ,while cow wastes significantly increased root height in Local Varity Hot pepper 16.63/plant , sheep wastes significantly increased wet weight in verities California Wonder verity 118.25 gm / plant in addition to dry weight 49.9 gm /plant .