Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Antagonist treatment reduced blue mold severity and incidence on Delicious apples.

A claim from Integrating Biological Control and Calcium Treatment for Controlling Postharvest Decay of Apples · 1998

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Antagonist treatment reduced blue mold severity and incidence on Delicious apples.

Material
`Delicious'e0
Treatment
antagoniste0
Interactor
Penicillium expansumPenicillium expansume2pathogen
Second interactor
Pseudomonas syringaePseudomonas syringaee1biocontrol_agent
Outcome
severity and incidence of blue mold decaye0
Direction
reducede0

Not reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageComparatorSettingValueQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Malus domestica
Malus domestica · TaxonW.carter · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Penicillium expansum
Penicillium expansum · InteractorH.J. Larsen, Bugwood.org · CC BY 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Pseudomonas syringae
Pseudomonas syringae · Second interactorHoward F. Schwartz · CC BY 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Both antagonist and Ca treatments reduced the severity and incidence of blue mold decay on `Delicious' apples”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 631–740
e1

“Pseudomonas syringae van Hall”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 297–326
e2

“Penicillium expansum Link”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 199–224

Title

Integrating Biological Control and Calcium Treatment for Controlling Postharvest Decay of Apples

Wojciech J. Janisiewicz; William S. Conway; D. Michael Glenn; et al. HortScience 1998. doi:10.21273/hortsci.33.1.0105

Other claims from this paper (4)

Record rev-be78ef35d8f67e27728f091591a56ef7259cc13a91f15959f867401db4262037 · schema claims-v0.9 · position 2 in the model’s answer

biocontrol · Penicillium expansum · Malus domestica (apple)Results agree

7 papers: 7 positive, 0 negative or no effect

6 papers in the same direction as this claim

  1. positive
    The antagonist reduced conidial germination at low apple juice concentrations but not at 5%.

    Biocontrol of blue mold on apple fruits by Aureobasidium pullulans (strain Ach 1-1): in vitro and in situ evidence for the possible involvement of competition for nutrients. · 2006 · compared with high (5%) juice concentrations

    Same direction

  2. positive
    The antagonist reduced decay to 39% on Golden Delicious apples in 2000.

    Experimental Bin Drenching System for Testing Biocontrol Agents to Control Postharvest Decay of Apples · 2005

    Same direction

  3. positive
    The BCA maintained extracellular pH around 4 against P. expansum-driven acidification in vitro and in apple wounds.

    Modulation of extracellular Penicillium expansum-driven acidification by Papiliotrema terrestris affects biosynthesis of patulin and has a possible role in biocontrol activity · 2022

    Same direction

  4. positive
    The biocontrol product inhibited Penicillium expansum blue mold only slightly.

    Laboratory effect of Boni Protect containing Aureobasidium pullulans (de Bary) Arnoud in the control of some fungal diseases of apple fruit · 2013

    Same direction

  5. positive
    The composite agent suppressed P. expansum infection.

    Construction of Composite Biocontrol Agent (BCA): Developing Effective Strategies for Controlling Postharvest Blue Mold and Patulin in Apples · 2025

    Same direction

  6. positive
    The consortium controlled P. expansum better than separately applied agents under certain storage conditions.

    Consortia of biocontrol agents provide improved control of apple postharvest diseases compared to monocultures · 2026 · compared with when applied separately

    Same direction

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.