The effect of pot intercropping of beans and tomato on Egyptian broomrape management and tomato growth indices improvement

Subject Areas : Agroecology Journal

Hosseinali Baneshi ¹ , Seddiqe Mohammadi ² , Tahereh Basirnia ³

1 - Master of plant pathology Marvdasht Branch Islamic Azad University Marvdasht, Iran
2 - Assistant professor of plant pathology Department of Plant Pathology Shiraz Branch Islamic Azad University Shiraz, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of plant pathology Department of Plant Pathology Marvdasht Branch Islamic Azad University Marvdasht, Iran

Received: 2016-07-02 Accepted : 2016-11-17 Published : 2016-10-22

Keywords: o biocontrol, o biological control, o parasite, o damage, o intercropping,

Abstract :

Broomrape is one of the most important parasitic higher plants imposing annually remarkable damages to crops. Finding a suitable management method to broomrape growth and damage depression had continuously been considered by investigators. In this research, the effect of pot intercropping of three bean varieties including kidney, wax and navy bean was investigated as a method to decrease of Egyptian broomrape damage. The experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block design with seven treatments including of each of bean varieties pots intercropping with and without host and broomrape. After two months, tomato height, dry weight and fruit weight and height and number of broomrape branches were measured. Intercropping of kidney and wax bean with tomato had the most effect on increasing of height, dry weight and fruit weight of tomato. Also, all bean varieties had the same effect on height and number of broomrape branches. Therefore, intercropping of bean with tomato has high potential in tomato growth improvement and broomrape damage decrement. Intercropping of beans with tomato is recommending managing broomrape.