Claim · model-written summary
In field trials the Trichoderma combination significantly reduced white mold plant incidence and severity in 2021 and 2022.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt1 - Treatment
- Trichoderma combinatione0
- Interactor
- Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Sclerotinia sclerotiorumt0pathogen - Second interactor
- Trichoderma
Trichodermae0biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- plant incidence and severitye0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Value
- 66.0 and 27.1% in 2021 and 55.6 and 18.8% in 2022e0
- Setting
- In the fielde0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageComparatorQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In the field, the Trichoderma combination significantly controlled white mold, reducing plant incidence and severity to 66.0 and 27.1% in 2021 and 55.6 and 18.8% in 2022”
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 The Trichoderma combination lowered sclerotia production to 32.7 and 14.6 on ten plants in the two years.
- Intervention effect 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.
- 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.