@article{RESEARCH,
      recid = {75809},
      author = {Maxwell, Lourena Arone and Chang, Hung-Chia and Chen,  Jaw-Rong and Kenyon, Lawrence and Srinivasan, Ramasamy},
      title = {Evaluation of biocontrol agents against bacterial wilt in  tomato using seedling screening},
      publisher = {Atlantis Press},
      address = {Netherlands. 2022},
      number = {RESEARCH. WorldVeg Staff Publication},
      pages = {p. 415-422},
      abstract = {Tomato is among the most cultivated vegetable crops  worldwide, and bacterial wilt (BW) caused by the Ralstonia  solanacearum species complex (RSSC) is the most devastating  disease affecting tomato, impacting food and nutrition  security in many areas. Pesticides used for controlling  plant diseases are hazardous to producers, consumers, and  the environment, whereas biological control is potentially  a sustainable and environmentally safe alternative for  disease management. To identify efficient biocontrol agents  (BCAs), twenty-five potential BCA isolates were screened  for control efficacy to BW on ten-day-old tomato seedlings  of highly susceptible (L390) and moderately resistant  (L180) cultivars previously inoculated with R. solanacearum  strain PSS4 (=Asian origin, Race 1, Phylotype I; Biovar 3).  After ten days incubation at 28 °C in the growth chamber,  wilting (W%) and biocontrol efficacy (BE%) percent were  evaluated. Of the 25 BCAs tested, four significantly  reduced W%, with BE% ranging from 50% to 80% for both  varieties. The four BCA isolates were identified as  Talaromyces sp., Trichoderma sp., Bacillus sp., and  Variovorax sp. The seedling method allows the rapid and  cost-effective in vivo screening of many potential BCAs to  reliably identify those with higher bacterial wilt control  efficacy for further testing.},
      url = {http://worldveg.tind.io/record/75809},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_43},
}