Seed treatment with prodigiosin controls damping-off of cucumber caused by Pythium ultimum

Abstract Ethanol extract of cell mass of Serratia marcescens strain N4-5, when applied as a treatment to cucumber seed, has been shown to provide control of the oomycete soil-borne plant pathogen Pythium ultimum equivalent to that provided by a seed-treatment chemical pesticide in some soils. Two do...

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Main Authors: Daniel P. Roberts, Kaitlyn Selmer, Robert Lupitskyy, Clifford Rice, Jeffrey S. Buyer, Jude E. Maul, Dilip K. Lakshman, Jorge DeSouza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-01-01
Series:AMB Express
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-020-01169-2

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