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 3 Effect of Ag/SiO₂NC and Dithane M-45 on yield and yield components of faba bean plants

Treatments^a	No. of pods/plant	No. of seeds/pod	Seed biomass (g)		Pod biomass (g)		100 seeds wt (g)	Seed yield/plant (g)
Treatments^a	No. of pods/plant	No. of seeds/pod	Fresh	Dry	Fresh	Dry	100 seeds wt (g)	Seed yield/plant (g)
Non-infected and untreated control	9.50 ± 0.92c^b	3.60 ± 0.29c	0.93 ± 0.03a	0.81 ± 0.01a	4.10 ± 1.43c	3.60 ± 0.14b	96.45 ± 2.11b	34.20 ± 0.13c
Infected and treated by Ag/SiO₂NC	6.30 ± 1.25a	2.50 ± 0.08a	1.40 ± 0.03b	1.20 ± 0.05b	2.60 ± 1.05a	2.10 ± 0.03a	76.20 ± 1.45a	15.75 ± 0.59a
Infected and treated by Dithane M-45	10.50 ± 1.31d	5.30 ± 0.36d	1.80 ± 0.06c	1.70 ± 0.05c	5.10 ± 0.99d	4.40 ± 0.06c	101.00 ± 1.13c	55.65 ± 0.04d
Infected and untreated control	8.10 ± 0.22b	3.40 ± 0.17b	0.87 ± 0.03a	0.80 ± 0.07a	3.20 ± 0.67b	3.60 ± 0.16b	95.10 ± 2.03b	27.54 ± 1.44b

^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