Effects of Two Salts Compounds on Mycelial Growth, Sporulation, and Spore Germination of Six Isolates of Botrytis cinerea in the Western North of Algeria

Table 2

Effect of different concentrations of NaCl and CaCl₂ on sporangium formation by six isolates of Botrytis cinerea in vitro after 14 days in potato dextrose agar (PDA) at 25°C.

Treatment	B. cinerea isolate
	F27	B27	R13	TR46	S27	FA13
Control	14.25^c	22.7^c	19.75^d	20.2^b	10.37^d	8.87^d
NaCl
50	26.49^c	29.55^c	21.16^d	22.57^b	20.39^c	21.1^c
100	31.33^bc	31.33^c	45.54^c	35.62^b	32.04^d	29.58^b
150	63.04^b	57.62^b	88.41^b	41.87^b	68.65^b	35.66^b
300	109.25^a	121.45^a	107.49^b	95.83^b	95.53^a	56.11^a
CaCl2
50	27.29^c	26.96^c	24.74^d	21.29^b	34.5^c	15.95^d
100	27.62^c	32.41^c	28.19^cd	24.33^b	31.54^c	28.16^c
150	35.33^bc	36.36^c	45.66^c	28.74^b	46.66^c	35.33^b
300	59.16^b	67.47^b	90.29^a	54.37^a	73.7^b	59^a
Two-way factor analysis of variance
Salt				NS		NS
Concentration
Salt * concentration						NS

= probability value (significance level). NS; not significant. Z: Letters denote significant differences among means in columns within trial according.