FIGURE 2.

Bacterial media-soluble/diffusible molecules inhibit the growth of filamentous fungi both on solid (A) and in liquid (B) media. Panel (A) is a representative figure showing the influence of the bacterial diffusible molecules on the fungal lawn of S. apiospermum SZMC 23374 grown on RPMI-1640 and SCFM plates. Arrows indicate the borders of the bacterial colony determined in two perpendicular directions. In panel (B), the graphs show the fungal growth rates in the presence of bacterial diffusible molecules in liquid culture media. Results are the mean from three independent experiments involving three individual replicates. Error bars indicate standard deviations. P-values were calculated using the unpaired t-test, where p < 0.05 was considered to be significant (indicated with asterisks). Graphs illustrating the growth rate of the other fungal strains tested are available in Supplementary Figure 1S.