Figure 2.

Antifungal activity of bacterial strains against Fusarium oxysporum in vitro. (a) Antifungal activity measured as the area of fungal growth inhibition between the fungal and bacterial colonies at 7 days after the start of the confrontation test. (b) Representative picture of a confrontation plate between F. oxysporum and the selected strains DD6 and EC9. QST713 is a B. velezensis strain used as benchmark reference. Error bars represent standard error of the mean, n = 6. Treatment means marked with different letters are significantly different at p ≤ 0.05.