Claim · model-written summary
White mold incidence and severity on tubers were reduced to 1.6% and 0.4% in 2021 and 1.3% and 0.3% in 2022.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt1 - Organ / stage
- tuberse0
- Treatment
- Trichoderma combinatione1
- Interactor
- Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Sclerotinia sclerotiorumt0pathogen - Second interactor
- Trichoderma
Trichodermae1biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- incidence and severitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 1.6% and 0.4% in 2021, and 1.3% and 0.3% in 2022e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundComparatorSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This control extended to tubers, where incidence and severity were reduced to 1.6% and 0.4% in 2021, and 1.3% and 0.3% in 2022”
e1“the Trichoderma combination significantly controlled white mold”
t1“Potato”
t0“Sclerotinia sclerotiorum”
Title
Gabriel Herrera-Rodriguez; Ruben Felix-Gastelum; Maria Belen Irazoqui-Acosta; et al. Plants 2026. doi:10.3390/plants15010156
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect In dual culture all four Trichoderma species significantly inhibited S. sclerotiorum mycelial growth by 60.1-63.1%.
- Intervention effect Volatile metabolites of the four Trichoderma species suppressed S. sclerotiorum mycelial growth by 90.3-94.1%.
- Intervention effect Volatile metabolites of the Trichoderma species completely suppressed sclerotia formation of S. sclerotiorum.
- Intervention effect In field trials the Trichoderma combination significantly reduced white mold plant incidence and severity in 2021 and 2022.
- Intervention effect The Trichoderma combination lowered sclerotia production to 32.7 and 14.6 on ten plants in the two years.
- Intervention effect Alternating Trichoderma with synthetic fungicides was statistically equivalent to Trichoderma alone in disease control.
- Intervention effect The fungicides-alone treatment was significantly less effective in disease control than the Trichoderma treatments.
- Intervention effect Potato yield was highest in plots treated with the Trichoderma combination (46.0 t/ha in 2021 and 52.9 t/ha in 2022).
- Recommendation The authors conclude that a mixture of the four Trichoderma species has potential as a cornerstone of sustainable disease management in Sinaloa.