Table 2.

Protection against pathogens by Piriformospora indica

Plant	Pathogen	Evidence	Reference
Hordeum vulgare	Fusarium culmorum	Effect on shoot fresh weighta	Waller et al. (2005)
Hordeum vulgare	Blumeria graminis	Disease symptoms
Hordeum vulgare	Fusarium graminearum	Pathogen spread	Deshmukh and Kogel (2007)
Triticum aestivum	Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides	Disease symptoms	Serfling et al. (2007)
Triticum aestivum	Blumeria graminis	Disease symptoms
Arabidopsis thaliana	Golovinomyces orontii	Disease symptoms	Stein et al. (2008)
Zea mays	Fusarium verticillioides	Effect on shoot dry weighta	Kumar et al. (2009)
Solanum lycopersicum	Verticillium dahliae	Disease symptoms	Fakhro et al. (2010)
Solanum lycopersicum	Fusarium oxysporum	Effect on dry root weighta	Sarma et al. (2011)
Lens culinaris	Fusarium oxysporum	Disease symptoms	Dolatabadi et al. (2012)

^aDifferences between P. indica-inoculated plants and controls were much higher in pathogen-inoculated plants