The role of peat-free organic substrates in the sustainable management of soilless cultivations

G Atzori, C Pane, M Zaccardelli, S Cacini, D Massa - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vegetable and ornamental crops require high input demand to adequately support their
standard commercial quality and yield. For these crops, a very high level of agronomic use …

Desirable traits of a good biocontrol agent against Verticillium wilt

S Deketelaere, L Tyvaert, SC França… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The soil-borne fungus Verticillium causes serious vascular disease in a wide variety of
annual crops and woody perennials. Verticillium wilt is notoriously difficult to control by …

土传病害生物防治研究进展

李兴龙, 李彦忠 - 草业学报, 2015 - cyxb.magtech.com.cn
土传病害已成为严重制约我国农牧业发展的主要原因, 近年来人们对于食物安全的重视和环保
意识的增强, 对农业的可持续发展提出了更高的要求. 生物防治因其低成本, 高效率 …

Enhancing soil quality and plant health through suppressive organic amendments

N Bonilla, JA Gutiérrez-Barranquero, A de Vicente… - Diversity, 2012 - mdpi.com
The practice of adding organic amendments to crop soils is undergoing resurgence as an
efficient way to restore soil organic matter content and to improve soil quality. The quantity …

Compost amendments enhance peat suppressiveness to Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotinia minor

C Pane, R Spaccini, A Piccolo, F Scala, G Bonanomi - Biological control, 2011 - Elsevier
Peat is the most common organic material used for the preparation of potting mix because of
its homogeneous and favorable agronomic characteristics. However, this organic material is …

Rhizosphere microbiome recruited from a suppressive compost improves plant fitness and increases protection against vascular wilt pathogens of tomato

A Antoniou, MD Tsolakidou, IA Stringlis… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Suppressive composts represent a sustainable approach to combat soilborne plant
pathogens and an alternative to the ineffective chemical fungicides used against those …

Suppressive composts: microbial ecology links between abiotic environments and healthy plants

Y Hadar, KK Papadopoulou - Annual review of phytopathology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Suppressive compost provides an environment in which plant disease development is
reduced, even in the presence of a pathogen and a susceptible host. Despite the numerous …

Biological control of Verticillium wilt on cotton by the use of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. under field conditions

O Erdogan, K Benlioglu - Biological Control, 2010 - Elsevier
Four out of 59 fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. strains collected from cotton and weed
rhizosphere were selected based on the following criteria:(1) inhibition of Verticillium …

Microbial biological control of fungi associated with grapevine trunk diseases: A review of strain diversity, modes of action, and advantages and limits of current …

O Mesguida, R Haidar, A Yacoub, A Dreux-Zigha… - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) are currently among the most important health challenges
for viticulture in the world. Esca, Botryosphaeria dieback, and Eutypa dieback are the most …

Vermicompost increases defense against root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) in tomato plants

Z Xiao, M Liu, L Jiang, X Chen, BS Griffiths, H Li… - Applied soil ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Sustainable agriculture aims to manage soil and plant health while relying less on chemical
inputs. The individual effect of organic amendments or resistant crop cultivars on the …