Table 1.

Beneficial soil organisms applied individually or in combinations in the field experiments.

Beneficial group/species	Strain	Treatment code	Application type	GenBank accession no.	Reference or source
PSEUDOMONAS BACTERIA
Pseudomonas chlororaphis	PCL1391a	B2	Aqueous	NZ_LFUT01000004	Chin-A-Woeng et al., 1998
Pseudomonas protegens	CHA0a	B1	Aqueous	NC_021237	Stutz et al., 1986
ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI
Claroideoglomus claroideum	SAF12c	F4	Substrate	n.a.d	Swiss collection of arbuscular miychorrizal fungi (SAF)
Funneliformis mosseae	SAF11c	F3	Substrate	n.a.d	SAF
Rhizoglomus irregulareb	INOQ Top	F1	Substrate	n.a.d	Inog GmbH, Schnega
Rhizoglomus irregulareb	SAF22c	F2	Substrate	DQ377990	Germany, SAF
ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODES
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	Andermatt	N2	Aqueous	KJ938576	Andermatt Biocontrol AG, Grossdietwil, Switzerland
Heterorhabditis megidis	Andermatt	N1	Aqueous	KJ938577	Andermatt Biocontrol AG, Grossdietwil, Switzerland
Steinernema carpocapsae	D-83	N3	Aqueous	KJ818295	Jaffuel et al., 2016
Steinernema feltiae	RS-5	N4	Aqueous	KJ938569	Jaffuel et al., 2017

^aRifampicin-resistant variants of strains CHA0 and PCL1391 were used as inoculants in the field trials (see Materials and Methods).

^bRhizoglomus irregulare was previously referred to as Rhizophagus irregularis and earlier as Glomus intraradices (Sieverding et al., 2015).

^cStrain ID referring to the Agroscope AMF strain collection, http://www.agroscope.ch/saf.

^dn.a., not available.