The Effect of Verticillium dahliae on the Amount of Nutrients in Strawberry Plants

There are absolute essential nutrients for plants to maintain their healthy grown, in case of deficiency or excess of these nutrients, a suitable habitat is formed against diseases in plants. In this research, Verticillium wilt disease caused by Verticillium dahliae in strawberry plants was carried out to determine how the plants caused a change in the content of P, Ca, K, Mg, Na, B, Mn, Fe, Zn and Cu. For this purpose, 19 V. dahliae isolates belonging to different vegetative compatibility groups (VCG 2A, VCG 2B, VCG 4B and VCGx) from strawberry plants were investigated. Nutrient analyzes were performed with 200 plants which were infected with V. dahliae isolates including control plants. When compared with control plants, V. dahliae infection caused changes in P, Ca, K, Mg, B, Mn and Cu contents of strawberry plants. However, the Na, Fe and Zn contents of the infected plants were not different from the control plants