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. 2022 May 31;10:e13405. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13405

Table 3. Rhizobacteria as biocontrol agents in tomato and other crop plant rhizosphere.

Biocontrol agents Rhizosphere organisms Effect on plants Reference
Rhizoacteria Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Acidobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Biological control of tobacco bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) Hu et al. (2021)
Pseudomonas species Biological control of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae (FOC) obtained from onion (Allium cepa) rhizosphere Bektas & Kusek (2021)
Bacillus subtilis K4-4 and GH3-8, Stenotrophomonas, Sphingobacterium genus Neocosmospora (Fusarium) solani is a fungi disease affecting orange (Citrus sinensis) biologically controlled fruit controlled by the cited bacteria Ezrari et al. (2021)
Pseudomonas species and Serratia species The organism reduced egg hatching and promoted mortality rate in vitro Abd El-Aal et al. (2021)
Streptomyces werraensis F3 The PGPR was isolated from the rhizosphere of ginseng and was analyzed for antifungal properties against ginseng root rot Qi et al. (2021)
Alcaligenes faecalis and Acinetobacter sp. Clavibacter michiganensis caused tomato bacteria canker to be controlled biologically by the rhizosphere organisms Oloyede et al. (2021)
Streptomyces species PGPR can biocontrol pathogenic fungi, Fusarium oxysporum causing root rot Sari, Nawangsih & Wahyudi (2021)
Bacillus safensis RF69, Bacillus species RP103 and Bacillus species RP242 Biological control activities have proven to be effective in controlling maize plant spoilage organisms (Fusarium verticillioides) Einloft et al. (2021)