Table 1.

List of plant pathogenic fungal strains used to test chitinase Chi18H8 inhibition on fungal growth

Fungal strain	General crop disease and damage	Reference	Inhibited by Chi18H8
Alternaria alternata	Leaf spot and other diseases on over 380 host species	Mukherjee and Sen (2006) and Di Maro et al. (2010)	+
Aspergillus niger	Black mold on a certain fruits and vegetables, such as grapes, onions, and peanuts	Xiao et al. (2009), Yan et al. (2008), and Singh et al. (2007)	−
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides	Anthracnose disease on various temperate, subtropical, and tropical fruit trees worldwide	Prapagdee et al. (2008) and Singh et al. (2007)	+
Fusarium graminearum	Head blight in oats and barley, resulting in yield reductions and contaminations of grains with trichothecene mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol	Dehestani et al. (2010)	+
Fusarium oxysporum	Has a broad host range. Individual isolates usually cause disease only on a narrow range of plant species	Wang et al. (2009) and Lee et al. (2007)	+
Penicillium chrysogenum	Post harvest pathogen of fruits and vegetables as it is widely distributed in nature	Mukherjee and Sen (2006)	−
Rhizopus stolonifer	Bread mold fungus	Yan et al. (2008)	−
Trichoderma harzianum	Major source of crop loss for mushrooms farmers	Hassan et al. (2009)	−