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BIOLOGICAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF ALTERNARIA
ALTERNATA IN TOBACCO
Biljana Gveroska1,
Petar Jovancev2
1
University”St.Kliment Ohridski”-Bitola,
Scientific Tobacco Institute-Prilep
Kicevski pat bb, 7500 Prilep; e-mail:
gveroska@t-home.mk
2Faculty of Agricultural sciences
and food - Skopje
ABSTRACT
Brown spot disease causes severe economic
losses on tobacco in R. Macedonia, mainly
because of the impairment of quality of
tobacco raw. Investigations must be made on pathogenic
fungus Alternaria alternata,
the causing agent of this disease, in order to find solutions to
the problems.
Due to the wide range
of host-plants and the important role of ecological factors on
occurrence and distribution of this
disease, our aim was to study their influence on biology of the
pathogen. Estimations were made on
nutrient medium, temperature and light effects on percentage of
germinated conidia and on the way of conidia germination.
It can be stated that germination rate was
higher in media with better supply of nutrient matters.
The highest rate of conidia germination was
noticed in tobacco juice and the highest speed of
germination in tomato juice.
Temperature increase had a positive effect on conidia
germination and the optimal temperature was 280C. We also found
that germination was higher in dark conditions than in light.
We believe that these investigations will contribute to
understand the pathology of brown spot
disease and to take preventive measures for its control.
Key words:
Alternaria alternata ,
tobacco
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