Claim · model-written summary
The commercial product RootShield, containing T. harzianum, reduced tomato disease by 62 to 68%.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- RootShielde4
- Second interactor
- T. harzianum
Trichoderma harzianume4biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- diseasee4
- Direction
- reducede4
- Value
- 62 to 68% reductione4
- Qualifier
- granules were incorporated into potting medium at 0.2% (wt/vol)e4
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Verbatim
e0“were tested for their efficacy in controlling Fusarium wilt of tomato”
e4“Commercially available biocontrol products containing G. virens and T. harzianum (SoilGard and RootShield, respectively) also effectively reduced disease (62 to 68% reduction) when granules were incorporated into potting medium at 0.2% (wt/vol)”
Title
Efficacy of Various Fungal and Bacterial Biocontrol Organisms for Control of Fusarium Wilt of Tomato
Robert P. Larkin; Deborah R. Fravel Plant Disease 1998. doi:10.1094/pdis.1998.82.9.1022
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Nonpathogenic F. oxysporum and F. solani isolates gave 50 to 80% reduction of tomato Fusarium wilt incidence in repeated tests.
- Intervention effect Isolates of G. virens significantly reduced tomato Fusarium wilt by 30 to 65% compared with disease controls, but less consistently than the nonpathogenic Fusarium isolates.
- Intervention effect Isolates of T. hamatum significantly reduced tomato Fusarium wilt by 30 to 65% compared with disease controls, but less consistently than the nonpathogenic Fusarium isolates.
- Intervention effect Isolates of P. fluorescens significantly reduced tomato Fusarium wilt by 30 to 65% compared with disease controls, but less consistently than the nonpathogenic Fusarium isolates.
- Intervention effect Isolates of B. cepacia significantly reduced tomato Fusarium wilt by 30 to 65% compared with disease controls, but less consistently than the nonpathogenic Fusarium isolates.
- Intervention effect The commercial product SoilGard, containing G. virens, reduced tomato disease by 62 to 68%.
- Intervention effect Combinations of antagonists reduced tomato Fusarium wilt.
- Intervention effect Combinations of antagonists gave no significantly better control of tomato Fusarium wilt than nonpathogenic Fusarium antagonists alone.
- Intervention effect Several fungal and bacterial isolates from tomato roots and rhizosphere significantly reduced Fusarium wilt.
- Intervention effect Several fungal and bacterial isolates from tomato roots and rhizosphere were no more effective against Fusarium wilt than other previously identified biocontrol strains.
- Intervention effect Isolates of F. oxysporum and F. solani were equally effective against Fusarium wilt of watermelon and muskmelon.