Table 1.

Economically important cereal crop pathogens and associated biocontrol studies involving Streptomyces species.

Pathogen	Cereal Crop Host	Symptoms	Impact	Streptomyces as Biocontrol
Magnaporthe oryzae (Rice blast)	Rice, Wheat	Panicle, leaf and head blast	Yield losses and mycotoxin contamination	Greenhouse and in vitro studies [18,65,66]
Fusarium spp.	All cereals	Head, root, crown and stem blight in addition to wilt and grain contamination	Yield losses and mycotoxin contamination	Greenhouse, in vitro and field studies [67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74]
Rhizoctonia solani	All cereals	Seedling damping off, and infection of stems, roots and foliage	Yield losses and reduction in grain quality	In vitro and growth chamber studies [64,66,71,75,76,77,78]
Gaumannomyces graminis (Wheat Take-all)	Wheat, Barley, Rye, Rice, Oat, Maize	Root lesions and rot that spreads upwards to aerial parts of the plant	Yield losses	In vitro and greenhouse studies [15,57]
Pythium spp.	Wheat, Barley, Rice, Maize	Seed damping off, as well as root and stem rot	Yield losses	In vitro and growth chamber studies [76,79]