Soreshin of cotton was more severe from combined infections of Rhizoctonia solani and Meloidogyne incognita than from either organism alone, when both critical soil temperature and inoculum concentrations were present. Optimum soil temperatures for disease development from combined infections were 18 and 21 C. Either 2,500 or 5,000 M. incognita larvae per plant, combined with R. solani, increas...

HOWELL, C. R., and R. D. STIPANOVIC. 1979. Control of Rhizoctonia solani on cotton seedlings with Pseudomonasfluorescens and with an antibiotic produced by the bacterium. Phytopathology 69:480-482. A strain of Pseudomonasfluorescens antagonistic to Rhizoctonia solani Alternaria sp., and Verticillium dahliae. A Fusarium sp. was only partially was isolated from the rhizosphere of cotton seedlings...

Naturally occurring disease-suppressive soils have been documented in a variety of cropping systems, and in many instances the biological attributes contributing to suppressiveness have been identified. While these studies have often yielded an understanding of operative mechanisms leading to the suppressive state, significant difficulty has been realized in the transfer of this knowledge into ...