Table 1.

Efficacy of the vegetable cells, culture filtrates, and crude extracts of the four antagonists in controlling the gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea on strawberry, grape, and tomato fruit in a greenhouse

Treatment	Strawberry		Grape		Tomato
	DI	DR (%)	DI	DR (%)	DI	DR (%)
Pathogen control	67.03 ± 4.75 a	–	70.18 ± 5.77 a	–	62.13 ± 4.61 a	–
Vegetable cell of Z-14	11.97 ± 1.47 d	82.14	40.40 ± 6.70 d	42.43	10.80 ± 2.57 f	82.62
Culture filtrate of Z-14	14.03 ± 1.43 d	79.07	61.62 ± 4.85 b	12.20	12.89 ± 3.35 ef	79.25
Crude extract of Z-14	19.47 ± 1.90 c	70.95	52.31 ± 4.43 c	25.46	15.39 ± 3.01 def	75.23
Vegetable cell of Pnf-4	25.19 ± 2.92 b	62.42	21.09 ± 5.52 e	69.95	19.48 ± 3.08 cde	68.65
Culture filtrate of Pnf-4	26.71 ± 2.53 b	60.15	11.76 ± 3.13 f	83.24	27.79 ± 4.47 b	55.27
Crude extract of Pnf-4	27.75 ± 1.73 b	58.60	19.69 ± 3.81 e	71.94	25.25 ± 2.58 bc	59.36
Vegetable cell of MG-4	15.42 ± 3.13 cd	77.00	10.75 ± 3.11 f	84.69	20.10 ± 4.36 cd	67.65
Culture filtrate of MG-4	13.75 ± 2.61 d	79.49	9.63 ± 2.93 f	86.28	28.56 ± 4.32 b	54.03
Crude extract of MG-4	19.42 ± 1.95 c	71.03	14.58 ± 2.94 ef	79.22	25.94 ± 4.04 bc	58.25
Vegetable cell of RS-25	26.41 ± 1.61 b	60.60	9.36 ± 2.87 f	86.66	12.14 ± 3.58 f	80.46
Culture filtrate of RS-25	30.11 ± 3.46 b	55.08	9.26 ± 2.38 f	86.81	20.32 ± 4.94 cd	67.29
Crude extract of RS-25	29.15 ± 3.55 b	56.51	17.06 ± 2.08 ef	75.69	24.78 ± 4.39 bc	60.12

Values are mean ± SD of three replicates per treatment (5 fruit each). As determined by Fisher’s protected least significant difference test, the means within a column followed by different letters are significantly different from each other at P = 0.05.

DI, disease index; DR, disease reduction.