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 2 Effect of Ag/SiO₂NC and Dithane M-45 on the growth vigour of faba bean plants shoot

Treatments^a	Fresh mass (g)	Dry mass (g)	Length (cm)	Diameter (mm)	Distribution (g/cm)	Density (g/cm)	Leaf area (cm²)	No. of nodes
Non-infected and untreated control	48.60 ± 0.53c^b	7.35 ± 1.31c	69.54 ± 1.02 c	7.11 ± 0.11c	0.70 ± 0.08b	0.11 ± 0.05b	41.20 ± 0.57c	20 ± 0.19b
Infected and treated by Ag/SiO₂NC	30.33 ± 0.37a	4.00 ± 1.58a	56.00 ± 1.00a	5.51 ± 0.02a	0.54 ± 0.09 a	0.07 ± 0.03a	28.60 ± 0.36a	16 ± 0.14a
Infected and treated by Dithane M-45	59.80 ± 1.29d	9.50 ± 0.47d	76.20 ± 0.88d	7.69 ± 0.34 d	0.79 ± 0.06c	0.13 ± 0.06c	44.50 ± 0.42d	23 ± 0.22c
Infected and untreated control	46.50 ± 0.68b	6.90 ± 0.25b	67.50 ± 1.14b	6.52 ± 0.01 b	0.69 ± 0.04b	0.10 ± 0.01b	39.60 ± 1.20b	19 ± 0.09b

^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