Antifungal activity of silver/silicon dioxide nanocomposite on the response of faba bean plants (Vicia faba L.) infected by Botrytis cinerea

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Table 1 Effect of Ag/SiO₂NC and Dithane M-45 on the growth vigour of faba bean plants root

Treatments^a	Fresh mass (g)	Dry mass (g)	Length (cm)	Distribution (g/cm)	Density (g/cm)	Root/shoot ratio
Non-infected and untreated control	8.03 ± 0.57c^b	1.91 ± 0.14c	16.52 ± 0.96c	0.49 ± 0.06c	0.12 ± 0.04b	0.24 ± 0.06b
Infected and treated by Ag/SiO₂NC	4.20 ± 0.19a	1.43 ± 0.31b	10.89 ± 0.48a	0.39 ± 0.03a	0.13 ± 0.01b	0.19 ± 0.02a
Infected and treated by Dithane M-45	10.23 ± 0.72d	2.30 ± 0.19d	20.60 ± 0.18d	0.50 ± 0.05c	0.11 ± 0.01b	0.27 ± 0.03b
Infected and untreated control	6.50 ± 0.33b	0.88 ± 0.12a	14.30 ± 0.13b	0.45 ± 0.12b	0.06 ± 0.04a	0.22 ± 0.09a

^aThe treatments including control, infected plants, Ag/SiO₂NC, Dithane M-45
^bValues within each column, means ± SE (n = 9) followed by a similar letter are not significantly different at p ≤ 0.05 using Tukey–Kramer HSD test