Effect of Cryptococcus laurentii and calcium chloride on control of Penicillium expansum and Botrytis cinerea infections in pear fruit

The ability of a cold-adapted Rhodotorula mucilaginosa strain from Tibet to control blue mold in pear fruit

“…After a preliminary screening test, four yeast isolates with biocontrol activity were selected for further study. Their biocontrol activity was compared to a previously selected antagonistic yeast strain of C. laurentii which has been demonstrated to be an effective postharvest biocontrol agent (Yu et al 2012;Zhang et al 2007). The YC1 isolate was found to be as effective as C. laurentii at 20°C, and exhibit better biocontrol activity than C. laurentii at 4°C (Table 1).…”

Effect of temperature on the morphological characteristics of Botrytis cinerea and its correlated with the genetic variability

“…Esterio, et al (2007), classified as a different variant those strains posses a single transposable element, however, in our case we have classified the strains in the transposatype subpopulation according to Giraud, et al (1997), none of the strains, turned out to belong at the vacuma-type subpopulation [20,21] . According to classification between phylogenetic species groups, all strains analyzed in this study were classified as Group II as proposed by Fournier, et al(2005) [22] .…”

“…cinerea is an important phytopathogenic fungus, haploid and heteroallelic ascomycete [12,[20][21][22] with a large amount of genetic variability [22] . In this study we evaluated six B. cinerea strains and demonstrated that isolated from the same or different origins that presented different characteristics, where it was found that all of the isolates studied belong to the Group II (transposa-type) based on the presence or absence of two TEs (boty and flipper).…”

“…Grey mould, cause important economic losses before and after the harvest [2] , worldwide losses from this fungus account for 20% of the harvest of the affected crops, and the cost is estimated at billion euros per year. The market size for anti-Botrytis products has been [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] million US dollars in recent 3 years [3] . An important biological feature is that the process of infection and growth by B. cinerea is often associated with prior colonization of dead or dying plant debris as a nutrient-providing saprophytic base [4] .…”

Characterization of competition for nutrients in the biocontrol of Penicillium italicum by Kloeckera apiculata

“…Some of these fungi have been registered for commercial use to control postharvest decay of horticultural products (Sui et al, 2012;Yu et al, 2012Yu et al, , 2013. A better understanding of the mechanism of action of antagonistic yeasts is important, both for improving their performance and for establishing screening criteria for new isolates (Liu et al, 2010a).…”