Fig. 1

Effects of inoculation of sweet pepper with Trichoderma harzianum T22 on (a) relative growth rate and (b) mortality of Nezara viridula 3rd instar nymphs, after feeding for one week on the plants. The lower, middle and upper lines of the boxplot correspond to the first quartile, median and third quartile, respectively, while the diamond represents the average. Data points represent the different replicates (n = 14). The asterisk represents a significant difference between the treatments ((a) t-test, p < 0.05; (b) GLM), while “ns” indicates no significant difference