Peat is the most common organic material used for the preparation of potting mix because of its homogeneous and favorable agronomic characteristics. However, this organic material is poorly suppressive against soilborne pathogens and fungicides are routinely used to manage damping-off diseases. In the present study,we investigated the suppressive capability of five compost – peatmixtures toward...

Pythium ultimum is one of the major causative agents responsible for damping off disease in cucumber plants. In the present study, the effect of potassium phosphite (KPhi) on defense response of P. ultimum-inoculated cucumber plants was investigated. Different plant growth parameters as well as chlorophyll a content were studied to evaluate the healing effec...

Lumsden, R. D., and Locke, J. C. 1989. Biological control of damping-off caused by Pythium ultimum and Rhizoctonia solani with Gliocladium virens in soilless mix. Phytopathology 79:361-366. Gliocladium virens controlled damping-off of zinnia, cotton, and Disease control efficacy lasted for at least 2 mo when G. virens was cabbage caused by Pythium ultimum or Rhizoctonia solani in nonsterile int...

abstract a total of 270 bacillus strains were isolated from bulk soil and rhizospheric of cucumber in the tonekabon fields (mazandaran province). antifungal activity of bacillus strains was evaluated against pythium aphanidermatum and p. ultimum using dual culture method. 13 strains with more than 10 mm inhibition zone were selected for further study. morphological, physiological, biochemical a...

This work highlights the ability of various cyanobacterial extracts from Anabaena spp., Tolypothrix Nostoc or Trichormus, among others genera, to control incidence damping-off caused by Pythium ultimum in cucumber seedlings. Protocols applied aimed at preliminary characterization collection were very useful for predicting their phytotoxic, phytostimulating and biopesticidal capacity. First, phy...