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Sample
no.
Major group
of crops
Crop
name
Prevalent
diseases
Causal organism
PGPM/biocontrol agent
Biocontrol
efficiency (%)
References
3.
Oilseeds
Soybean Damping-off
Colletotrichum truncatum
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
97.0
Begum et al.
(2010)
Rapeseed Leaf blight
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Fusarium oxysporum
CanR-46,
Aspergillus flavipes
CanS-34A
94.5
Zhang et al.
(2014)
Grey mould
Botrytis cinerea
Fusarium oxysporum
CanR-46
91.0
Zhang et al.
(2014)
4.
Vegetables
Spinach Wilt of spinach Fusarium oxysporum
f. sp.
spinaciae
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens
Q-426 86.3
Zhao et al.
(2013)
Tomato
Gray mould
disease
Botrytis cinerea
Chromobacterium
sp. C61
–
Kim et al.
(2014)
Late blight
Phytophthora infestans
Chromobacterium
sp. C61
–
Kim et al.
(2014)
Chili
Anthracnose
Colletotrichum capsici
(Sydow) Butler and Bisby
Trichoderma aureoviride
(T42)
73.3
Saxena et al.
(2015)
Potato
Soft rot
Pectobacterium
sp.
Paenibacillus dendritiformis
–
Lapidot et al.
(2014)
Table 2.1 (continued)
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