What is it about?
Verticillium wilt is one the most important disease of cotton in the world, including Iran. Cultural practices and the use of resistant varieties are the most common strategies used to control Verticillium wilt of cotton. But these strategies are not always available or effective. Therefore, biological control using the bacterial antagonists were investigated.
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Why is it important?
We found Pseudomonas fluorescens isolated from different rhizospheric soils and plant roots in the Iranian cotton fields most effective than Bacillus isolates in biological control agents of cotton.
Perspectives
The results obtained in this study are promising, and suggest that bacterial antagonists are potential candidates for biological control of Verticillium wilt disease in cotton and its causal agent (V. dahliae).
Nader Hassanzadeh Hassanzadeh
Islamic Azad University
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This page is a summary of: Evaluation of Pseudomonas and Bacillus Bacterial Antagonists for Biological Control of Cotton Verticillium Wilt Disease, Journal of Plant Protection Research, January 2013, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/jppr-2013-0023.
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