Agriculture & Food Security

Table 2 Inhibition halo (mm) of the bacterial isolates by extracts of C. odorata

From: Antibacterial effect of Chromolaena odorata extracts on some Erwinia isolates, causal agents of tomato fruit rot in Dschang, Cameroon

Treatment	Erwinia isolates
Treatment	EJD16	EBD16
Aqueous extract
T−	0.00 ± 0.00^d	0.00 ± 0.00^c
T+	39.87 ± 3.35^a	36.97 ± 3.40^a
1 g/ml	25.73 ± 0.23^c	27.87 ± 1.97^b
2 g/ml	24.30 ± 3.48^c	25.73 ± 0.51^b
3 g/ml	30.07 ± 0.80^b	27.63 ± 0.35^b
Ethanolic extract
T−	10.97 ± 0.91^c	13.20 ± 0.72^d
T+	39.87 ± 3.35^a	36.97 ± 3.40^a
7 mg/ml	23.50 ± 2.85^b	20.53 ± 3.93^c
8 mg/ml	22.50 ± 1.15^b	23.40 ± 1.31^bc
9 mg/ml	25.16 ± 0.51^b	27.97 ± 3.25^b

T − = negative control; T + = positive control
Means affected with the same alphabetical letter in the same column are not significantly different according to Duncan’s test at P ≤ 0.05

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