Plant-parasitic nematodes are important threat to agricultural crops. Management through biological control agents like endoparasitic bacteria, Pasteuria spp. has shown great promise. They occur worldwide and have been reported from a wide range of environment.A comprehensive understanding the biology their mechanism underlying nematode disease suppression may help develop useful biocontrol age...

Abstract Background Fusarium odoratissimum ( Foc TR4) is a devastating fungal pathogen that causes Panama wilt in Cavendish banana, high value crop generates significant revenue. The excessive use of synthetic fungicides for disease control poses risks to both human health and the environment. Consequently, there pressing need eco-friendly alternatives manage this disease. One potential approac...

Species of the epiphytic fungus Pseudozyma are not pathogenic to plants and can be used as biocontrol agents against plant pathogens. Deciphering how they induce plant defense might contribute to their use for plant protection and expand our understanding of molecular plant-pathogen interactions. Here we show that Pseudozyma aphidis isolate L12, which is known to induce jasmonic acid- and salic...

abstract in this study the effect of combination of trichoderma harzianum bi and salicylic acid were studied on root knot nematode (meloidogyne javanica) disease on tomato under green house conditions. the roots of tomato seedlings at six-leaf stage were inoculated with suspensions of fungal antagonist (106 conidia/ ml), 5mm salicylic acid and 2000 second-stage juvenile (j2). combined applicati...

We investigated the biocontrol activity of A. pullulans Dmg 30 DEP against Alternaria solani causal agent early blight. Biocontrol was tested by in vivo and ad planta. were investigating antibiosis capabilities with dual culture method, paper dish assay, two-compartment petri trapping identification volatile organic compounds (VOCs) GC-MS. Lysis examined observing clear zone formed growing yeas...

After being used as a biocontrol agent against aphids for decades without harmful consequences, the Asian harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis has suddenly become an invasive pest on a worldwide scale. We investigate the impact of captive breeding on several traits of this ladybird such as genetic diversity, fecundity, survival and pathogen resistance. We conducted an experiment in the laborato...