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There is growing interest in the large-scale application of plant-associated, nonpathogenic bacteria for the biological control of soilborne plant diseases. This is largely due to a lack of other control options for soilborne diseases but also to agricultural trends towards sustainability and to public concern over the hazards of synthetic fungicides and fumigants. In the last twenty years, a diversity of plant-associated bacteria, particularly fluorescent pseudomonads, have been shown to effectively control a wide-spectrum of soilborne diseases in greenhouse trials and field plots of small to moderate scale. Commercialization of most biocontrol agents, however, has been hindered by variable performance and only a handful of bacterial products have been registered for agricultural application (Cook, 1993). The level and reliability of disease suppression must be optimized for biocontrol to become commercially feasible on a large-scale.
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Duffy, B.K., Défago, G. (1999). Trace Mineral Amendments in Agriculture for Optimizing the Biocontrol Activity of Plant-Associated Bacteria. In: Berthelin, J., Huang, P.M., Bollag, JM., Andreux, F. (eds) Effect of Mineral-Organic-Microorganism Interactions on Soil and Freshwater Environments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4683-2_32
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