MYCOBIOTA OF SOLARIZED AND UNSOLARIZED CUCUMBER SOILS AND ROLE OF SOLARIZATION IN CONTROLLING OF SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM (LIB.) de BARY UNDER GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS

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1 Department of Biological and Geological Sciences, Faculty of Education, Suez Canal University, Al-Arish, Egypt

2 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41522, Egypt

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Soil mycoflora play an important role in agri-cultural economy of a country. The current study was made to have the knowledge about soilborne fungi associated with cucumber crop in solarized and unsolarized soils. Solarization exerted various effects, some of which are biological, others are chemical and still others are physical. All together these changes affected directly or indirectly the mycoflora of the soil, especially the soilborne pathogenic ones. Forty-nine fungal species belong to thirty genera have been isolated from solarized and unsolarized soils. The diversity as well as the count was greatly affected by solarization. By comparison of the species lists of the fungal flora of solarized and unsolarized soils it was evident that soil fungi behave differently toward soil solar-ization, while some new species developed e.g. Absidia, Acrophialophora, Talaromyces, Glio-cladium, some remained unaffected e. g. Aspergil-lus, Penicillium, Chaetomium, Botryotrichum, still others disappeared e. g. Acremonium, Cephali-ophora, Eurotium and others. Regarding solariza-tion for controlling white cucumber rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, the obtained data clearly show that solarization had led to a marked in-crease in the number of healthy plants up to 72.5%.

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