Assesment the Effect of some Bio-Control Agents and OrganiCul-ITM for Controlling Root- rot and Damping-off Diseases of Tomato Lycopersicon esculentum Mill Caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kühn
This study was carried out under green house condition in Al-Najaf province to evaluate the efficiency of some of bio-control fungi and abacteria individually (Trichoderma harzianum, Trichoderma viridi , Chaetumium globosum,Bacillus subtilis,Pseudomonas fluorescens,Azotobacter vinelandii) and incombination as OrganiCul-ITM,commertial products(Trichoderma harzianum,Trichoderma viridi, Bacillus subtilis,Pseudomonas fluorescens, Azotobacter vinelandii) to protect tomato plants against Rhizoctonia solani ,the causative agent of root rot and seedling damping-off diseases. The antagonistic and promotional abilities of T.harzianum , T. viride, ,C.globosum, B. subtilis,P. fluorescens, A.vinelandii were achieved against R. solani in vitro in dual culture assay and in green house.Antagonistic test showed that T. harzianum isolate was significantly reduced the mycelial diameter of R. solani which reach to 16.10 mm on potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium incompare with R. solani Kuhn isolate that was 90 mm, so the inhibition percentage of mycelial growth of R. solani Kuhn by T. harzianum was 82.21%.