Soil-borne phytopathogens cause extensive damage to cultivated plants worldwide,
resulting in yield loss worth billions of Euros each year. Soil fumigation is the most effective …

Soils suppressive to soilborne pathogens have been identified worldwide for almost 60
years and attributed mainly to suppressive or antagonistic microorganisms. Rather than …

Conservation tillage and organic farming are strategies used worldwide to preserve the
stability and fertility of soils. While positive effects on soil structure have been extensively …

Worldwide excessive use of chemical pesticides with harmful side effects to environment
and humans has increased the call for a pesticide-free agriculture. Biological control of plant …

Beneficial rhizosphere-dwelling Pseudomonas spp. play an essential role in supplying crop
plants with nutrients and defending them against soilborne pathogens. This chapter focuses …

Many Pseudomonas strains can benefit plants directly, by promoting plant growth and
health, and/or indirectly through inhibition of, or competition with pathogens, parasites, or …

Disease suppressive soils offer effective protection to plants against infection by soil-borne
pathogens, including fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, and nematodes. The specific disease …

Suppressive soils are characterized by a very low level of disease development even
though a virulent pathogen and susceptible host are present. Biotic and abiotic elements of …

Purpose Soil management exerts profound impact on the structure and function of the
microbiome. Organic practice is believed to positively affect disease suppressiveness …

Particular bacterial strains in certain natural environments prevent infectious diseases of
plant roots. How these bacteria achieve this protection from pathogenic fungi has been …