Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years
one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean …

Plant pathogens cause severe losses or damage to crops worldwide and thereby
significantly reduce the quality and quantity of agricultural commodities. World tendencies …

The management of certain plant beneficial microorganisms [biological control agents
(BCAs)] seems to be a promising and environmental friendly method to control plant …

Pythium is a genus of parasitic oomycetes which target plants and both nonvertebrate and
vertebrate animals, including fish and mammalian species. However, several Pythium spp …

Botrytis cinerea is a polyphagous necrotrophic fungus and is the causal agent of grey mold
diseases in more than 1400 different hosts. This fungus causes serious economic losses in …

Pythium oligandrum, a non-pathogenic soil-inhabiting oomycete, colonizes the root
ecosystem of many crop species. Whereas most members in the genus Pythium are plant …

The worldwide important crop tomato is attacked by various pathogens, for which
management is still primarily reliant on fungicides despite increasing concerns and …

Biological control of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, a pathogen involved in Esca, a
grapevine trunk wood disease, was performed using the oomycete, Pythium oligandrum …

Soilless cultures were originally developed to control soilborne diseases. Soilless cultures
provide several advantages for growers such as greater production of crops, reduced …

The ED 50 value of antagonistic substance from Chaetomium globosum N0802 extracted
with hexane was 157 μg/ml. This gave the highest inhibition of conidial production of …