First report of crown and root rot of tomato caused by Fusarium equiseti in Algeria

Antifungal activity of lactic acid bacteria against Fusarium species responsible for tomato crown and root rots

“…All strains of Fusarium obtained were pathogen against tomato plants and caused crown and root rot. Fusarium species such as F. oxysporum, F. solani, F. redolens, F. commune, Fusarium rolfsii and Fusarium incarnatum-equiseti species complex MLST type 5 have been noted as severely virulent species of pathogenic fungi that often infect tomato plants (Hamini-Kadar et al 2010;Si Mohammed et al 2016;Husain et al 2017;Yezli et al 2019).…”

“…radicis-lycopersici, responsible for crown and root rot (Can et al 2004). Three other species belonging to the same genus, Fusarium commune, Fusarium redolens (Hamini-Kadar et al 2010) and Fusarium equiseti (Yezli et al 2019) have also been reported as causal agents of crown and root rot of tomato. In addition, Fusarium species are reported not only in Algeria, but from different parts of the world, and they are known to be pathogenic to different plants (Mannai et al 2018;Rezaee et al 2018).…”

“…In Algeria, the average disease incidence caused by Fusarium species has reached 62% (Yezli et al 2019), compared with 50% disease incidence caused by Alternaria grandis on the same culture (tomato) (Bessadat et al 2016). This shows that there is not an effective treatment to reduce the disease incidence in Algeria.…”