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Compatibility Of Essential Oils With The Biocontrol Fungus, Beauveria Bassiana, Wanjing Liu Dec 2012

Compatibility Of Essential Oils With The Biocontrol Fungus, Beauveria Bassiana, Wanjing Liu

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The tomato seedling damping-off pathogens Rhizoctonia and Pythium have the potential to cause severe loss in the greenhouse and field. Both seed application of Beauveria bassiana and soil amendment with bioactive monarda herbages are sustainable approaches that can play a role in suppressing damping-off of tomato seedlings. The objectives of this research were to determine the compatibility of essential oils and B. bassiana, and to determine the impact of the two when used together as a seed treatment in greenhouse experiments.

Different concentrations of five essential oils that were active against damping-off pathogens (cymene, carvacrol, thymol, borneol, and geraniol) …