“…Recent environmental concerns, and the increasing production of organic crops, has led to the development of several biological control agents against CPM. These compounds, which encompassed Bacillus bacteria, epiphytic fungi, and other mycoparasitic microorganisms, exhibited a reduction in symptoms ranging from 25% to 75% in efficacy (Lee & Park, 2021;Li & Punja, 2020;Panstruga et al, 2015;Safaei et al, 2021). Nevertheless, these organic products have only been tested on cucumber grown under green-house conditions and further studies should be assessed to test if they are efficient and cost-effective in open-field conditions.…”