Claim · model-written summary
All antagonists showed significant inhibitory effects against Alternaria alternata in vitro.
- Treatment
- antagonistse4
- Interactor
- A. alternata
Alternaria alternatae4pathogen - Outcome
- inhibitory effects against A. alternatae4
- Direction
- inhibitorye4
- Setting
- in vitroe4
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Verbatim
e1“The cactus pear (Opuntia spp.) is a crop of major economic and ecological importance in arid and semi-arid regions”
e4“All antagonists showed significant inhibitory effects against A. alternata in vitro preliminary assay”
Title
Asmae Azzouzi; Oumaima El Ayssaly; Mohammed Baala; et al. Plants 2026. doi:10.3390/plants15050733
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Alternaria alternata, Alternaria tenuissima and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides were isolated from symptomatic cactus pear cladodes.
- Observation Aspergillus tubingensis was isolated from symptomatic cactus pear cladodes.
- Association Alternaria alternata was the most aggressive of the isolated pathogens and was selected for antagonism assays.
- Association Bacterial isolates B. siamensis, B. halotolerans and P. peli, and Trichoderma harzianum, showed the highest antagonist efficacy.
- Observation The efficacy of the three most effective bacterial isolates was confirmed in vivo on one-year-old cladodes.
- Observation Trichoderma harzianum showed significant pathogenic potential on cladodes of O. ficus-indica and O. megacantha.
- Observation The three most effective bacterial isolates produced antifungal volatile organic compounds.
- Observation Amylase, chitinase and cellulase production differed among the three most effective isolates.
- Observation Protease production differed among the three most effective isolates.
- Observation Genes associated with antifungal lipopeptide biosynthesis were detected only in P. peli.