TABLE 4.
Mycelial growth inhibition of Botryosphaeria dieback pathogens by Pseudomonas strains as potential biocontrol agents (BCAs).
| BCA | Percent mycelial growth inhibition (%)d |
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| BDa | DMa | DSa | DoVa | LTa | NAa | NLa | NPa | SVa | BCA meanb | |
| 11 | 70.4 a | 26.3abc | 45.5 ab | 66.5ab | 41.0 a | 46.8a | 30.3a | 20.4ab | 40.9 b | 43.1 A |
| 12 | 58.1 a | 0.0d | 47.6 a | 0.0d | 38.5 a | 0.0d | 0.0c | 10.1ab | 62.0 a | 24.0 F |
| 13 | 68.9 a | 25.9abc | 37.6 abcd | 53.5bc | 44.4 a | 36.0ab | 29.5a | 22.2a | 58.1 a | 41.7 A |
| 14 | 64.1 a | 29.4ab | 39.2 abc | 45.8c | 23.5 b | 37.8ab | 25.0ab | 21.0ab | 42.7 b | 36.5 B |
| 15 | 12.6 b | 14.1c | 12.6 e | 11.0d | 11.5 b | 12.3cd | 12.0bc | 8.5b | 13.1 c | 12.0 G |
| 16 | 25.4 b | 19.7bc | 28.1 cd | 69.4a | 12.4 b | 17.6c | 14.2b | 12.0ab | 40.9 b | 26.6 EF |
| 17 | 19.5 b | 24.1abc | 25.5 de | 72.8a | 13.3 b | 15.6c | 14.9b | 12.6ab | 43.1 b | 26.8 EF |
| 18 | 22.9 b | 29.2ab | 29.5 cd | 77.6a | 13.8 b | 17.8c | 12.6bc | 13.5ab | 44.6 b | 29.0 DE |
| 19 | 22.9 b | 35.5a | 32.2 cd | 79.1a | 22.0 b | 17.6c | 20.8ab | 13.1ab | 45.0 b | 32.0 CD |
| 20 | 59.7 a | 22.6abc | 33.8 bcd | 47.6c | 24.0 b | 32.4b | 25.4a | 21.0ab | 38.5 b | 33.9 BC |
| Pathogen meanc | 42.3 W | 22.7Y | 33.1 X | 52.3V | 24.4 Y | 23.4Y | 18.5Z | 15.4Z | 42.9 W | |
aMeans within a column followed by different letters are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05 LSD = 13.055 for BCA x pathogen interaction. bBCA means within a column followed by different letters are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05 LSD = 4.352 for BCA means. cPathogen means within a row followed by different letters are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05 LSD = 4.128 for pathogen means. dBD, Botryosphaeria dothidea; DM, Diplodia mutila; DS, D. seriata; DoV, Dothiorella vidmadera; LT, Lasiodiplodia theobromae; NA, Neofusicoccum australe; NL, N. luteum; NP, N. parvum; SV, Spencermartinsia viticola.