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Table 2.1 Major agricultural crops: their diseases and potential biocontrol agents against the diseases
Sample
no.
Major group
of crops
Crop
name
Prevalent
diseases
Causal organism
PGPM/biocontrol agent
Biocontrol
efficiency (%)
References
1.
Cereals
Wheat
Powdery
mildew
Blumeria graminis
f. sp.
tritici
(Bgt)
Bacillus subtilis
E1R-J
90.97
Gao et al.
(2015)
Take-all
disease
Gaeumannomyces graminis
var. tritici
R3-111a-1
Pseudomonas fluorescens
HC1-07 56.8
Yang et al.
(2014)
Rhizoctonia
root rot
Rhizoctonia solani
AG-8
strain
Pseudomonas fluorescens
HC1-07 46.1
Yang et al.
(2014)
Leaf rust
Puccinia recondita
Chromobacterium
sp. C61
–
Kim et al.
(2014)
Flag smut
Urocystis tritici
Körn
Bacillus thuringiensis
58-2-1
94.0
Tao et al.
(2014)
Rice
Sheath blight
Rhizoctonia solani
Bacillus subtilis
916
66.7
Luo et al.
(2014)
Blight disease Xanthomonas campestris
pv.
oryzae
Pseudomonas
sp. BaC1-38
80.0
Lucas et al.
(2014)
Rice blast
Magnaporthe oryzae
Chromobacterium
sp. C61
–
Kim et al.
(2014)
Sheath blight
Rhizoctonia solani
Chromobacterium
sp. C61
–
Kim et al.
(2014)
Maize
Ear rot of
maize
Fusarium verticillioides
Trichoderma harzianum
T22
58.0
Ferrigo et al.
(2014)
2.
Pulses
Chickpea Southern blight Sclerotium rolfsii
Sacc.
Trichoderma aureoviride
T42
60.0
Saxena et al.
(2015)
Bean
White mould
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
(Lib.) de Bary
Trichoderma aureoviride
T42
82.2
Saxena et al.
(2015)
(continued)
2.6 Microorganisms Improve Soil Quality