Claim · model-written summary
Pseudomonas fluorescens reduced Radopholus similis populations by 48.7%.
- Taxon
- bananat0
- Treatment
- Pseudomonas fluorescense1
- Interactor
- Radopholus similis
Radopholus similise0pest - Second interactor
- Pseudomonas fluorescens
Pseudomonas fluorescense1biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- Radopholus similise0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 48.7e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageComparatorSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“populations of Radopholus similis, Pratylenchus coffeae and Helicotylenchus multicinctus were reduced by 48.7, 46.3 and 44.3%, respectively.”
e1“Pseudomonas fluorescens was also the most effective to control nematodes until harvest”
t0“banana”
Title
Biological control of lesion nematodes in banana
A. Shanthi; G. Rajendran Nematologia mediterranea 2006
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect P. fluorescens at 20 g/plant gave the greatest bunch length.
- Intervention effect P. fluorescens at 20 g/plant gave the greatest bunch weight.
- Intervention effect P. fluorescens at 20 g/plant gave the greatest number of hands per bunch.
- Intervention effect P. fluorescens at 20 g/plant gave the greatest number of fingers per bunch.
- Observation Yield parameters increased by 59 to 110%.
- Intervention effect Pseudomonas fluorescens reduced Pratylenchus coffeae populations by 46.3%.
- Intervention effect Pseudomonas fluorescens reduced Helicotylenchus multicinctus populations by 44.3%.
- Observation T. viride application ranked next after P. fluorescens.
- Observation Carbofuran application ranked next after P. fluorescens.
- Observation G. fasciculatum ranked below T. viride and carbofuran.
- Observation B. subtilis ranked below T. viride and carbofuran.
- Observation P. lilacinus ranked below T. viride and carbofuran.
- Observation Control plants had the lowest bunch weight of 15 kg.
- Observation Carbofuran was most effective for nematode control through three months after planting.
- Observation Carbofuran efficacy later fell to a level similar to P. fluorescens.
- Observation P. fluorescens colonized banana roots at 105 × 108cfu/g.
- Observation T. viride colonized banana roots at 60 × 106 cfu/g.
- Observation G. fasciculatum colonized banana roots at 44%.
- Observation B. subtilis colonized banana roots at 58 × 108 cells/g of root.