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. 2020 Sep 9;9(9):1167. doi: 10.3390/plants9091167

Table 1.

A list of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) conferring direct antagonisms against plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN).

PGPR Target PPN Molecules or Modes References
Bacillus cereus Heterodera avenae,
Meloidogyne incognita,
Meloidogyne javanica
Sphingosine, Protease, Chitinase, Antibiotic production, Secondary metabolites Oka et al., 2008 [9]; Gao et al., 2016 [10]; Ahmed, 2019 [11]
Bacillus coagulans Meloidogyne incognita Hydrolytic enzymes Ambo et al., 2010 [12]; Serfoji et al., 2013 [13]; Xiang et al., 2018 [4]
Bacillus firmus Ditylenchus dipasi, Heterodera spp., Meloidogyne incognita, Pratylenchus spp., Radopholus similis Sep 1 protease, Secondary metabolites Giannakou et al., 2004 [14]; Mendoza et al., 2008 [15]; Terefe et al., 2009 [16]; Terefe et al., 2012 [17]; Xiong et al., 2015 [18]; Geng et al., 2016 [19]; Bayer Crop Science [20]
Bacillus licheniformis Bursaphelenchulus xylophi lus, Meloidogyne incognita Protease, Chitinase Siddiqui and Husain 1991 [21]; Siddiqui and Mahmood 1992 [22]; Jeong et al., 2015 [23]; El-Nagdi et al., 2019 [24]
Bacillus megaterium Heterodera glycines,Meloidogyne incognita,
Meloidogyne graminicola
Protease, Secondary metabolites Kloepper et al., 1992 [25]; Padgham et al., 2007 [26]; Mostafa et al., 2018 [27]
Bacillus pumilus L1 Heterodera glycines,
Meloidogyne arenaria
Protease, Chitinase Lee and Kim 2015 [28]; Forghani and Hajihassani et al., 2020 [29]
Bacillus subtilis Helicotylenchus multicinctus,
Meloidogyne graminicola, Meloidogyne incognita, Meloidogyne javanica, Rotylenchulus reniformis
Lipopeptide antibiotics, Hydrolytic enzymes, Secondary metabolites Prakob et al., 2009 [30]; Kavitha et al., 2012 [31]; Basyony and Abo-Zaid, 2018 [32]; Mazzuchelli et al., 2020 [33]; Gautam et al., 1995 [34]
Bacillus thuringiensis Heterodera glycines, Meloidogyne incognita Bt crystal protein (toxin protein), Thuringiensin (β-exotoxin) Noel, 1990 [35]; Wei et al., 2003 [36]; Mohammed et al., 2008 [37]
Corynebacterium paurometabolum Meloidogyne incognita Hydrogen sulfide, Chitinase Mena and Pimentel, 2002 [38]
Pasteuria penetrans 1 Meloidogyne spp. Predation Mankau et al., 1976 [39]; Mankau and Prasad, 1977 [40]; Dube and Smart, [41]; Sayre and Starr 1975 [42]; Bhuiyan et al., 2018 [43]
Pasteuria thornei 1 Pratylenchus spp. Predation Mankau et al., 1976 [41]; Atibalentja et al., 2000 [44]
Pasteuria nishizawae 1 Globodera spp.,
Heterodera spp.
Predation Sayre and Wergin, 1991 [45]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Caenorhabditis elegans, Meloidogyne incognita, Meloidogyne javanica Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) Siddiqui and Ehteshamul-Haque, 2001 [46]; Gallagher and Manoil, 2001 [47]; Singh and Siddiqui, 2010 [48]
Pseudomonas. fluorescens F113 Globodera rostochinensis 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (DAPG) Cronin et al., 1997 [49]
Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 Meloidogyne incognita, Meloidogynejavanica HCN, DAPG, Pyoluteorin, Extracellular protease Siddiqui and Shaukat, 2003 [50]; Hamid et al., 2003 [51]; Siddiqui et al., 2005 [52]
Pseudomonas fluorescens Wood1R Meloidogyne incognita DAPG Timper et al., 2009 [53]
Pseudomonas stutzeri Meloidogyne incognita HCN Khan et al., 2016 [54]
Serratia marcescens Meloidogyne incognita,
Meloidogyne javanica,
Radopholus similis
Volatile metabolites, Prodigiosin Zabaketa-Mejia, 1985 [55]; Rahul et al., 2014 [56]

1 nematode parasitic bacteria.