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Current Insights into the Role of Rhizosphere Bacteria in Disease Suppressive Soils

“…The first suppressive soil was reported in 1892 by Atkinson for Fusarium wilt disease of cotton ( Atkinson, 1892 ; Scher and Baker, 1980 ; Amir and Alabouvette, 1993 ; Lemanceau et al, 2006 ). Since then, specific suppressiveness of soils has been reported for a range of pathogens, including fungi such as Gaeumannomyces graminis var tritici ( Raaijmakers and Weller, 1998 ; De Souza et al, 2003 ), Fusarium oxysporum ( Scher and Baker, 1980 ; Alabouvette, 1986 ; Klein et al, 2013 ), Fusarium solani ( Burke, 1954 ; Kobayashi and Komada, 1995 ), Rhizoctonia solani ( Wijetunga and Baker, 1979 ; Chern and Ko, 1989 ; Postma et al, 2010 ; Mendes et al, 2011 ), Verticillium dahliae ( Keinath and Fravel, 1992 ), Pyrenochaeta lycopersici ( Workneh and Van Bruggen, 1994 ), Sclerotinia sclerotiorum ( Rodríguez et al, 2015 ), Alternaria triticina ( Siddiqui, 2007 ), oomycetes such as Phytophthora cinnamomi ( Broadbent and Baker, 1974 ), Pythium ultimum ( Martin and Hancock, 1986 ), and Aphanomyces euteiches ( Persson and Olsson, 2000 ), bacteria such as Streptomyces scabies ( Menzies, 1959 ; Weinhold et al, 1964 ; Kinkel et al, 2012 ; Meng et al, 2012 ; Rosenzweig et al, 2012 ), Ralstonia solanacearum ( Shiomi et al, 1999 ) and Agrobacterium radiobacter var tumefaciens ( New and Kerr, 1972 ), protists such as Plasmodiophora brassicae ( Hjort et al, 2007 ) and nematodes such as Meloidogyne incognita ( Pyrowolakis et al, 2002 ; Giné et al, 2016 ), Heterodera schachtii ( Olatinwo et al, 2006 ), Heterodera glycines ( Song et al, 2016 ), and Criconemella xenoplax ( Kluepfel et al, 1993 ).…”

“…Following this line of research, several microbial genera have been proposed for their role in specific disease suppressiveness. These include (fluorescent) Pseudomonas ( Kloepper et al, 1980 ; Scher and Baker, 1980 , 1982 ; Wong and Baker, 1984 ; Lemanceau and Alabouvette, 1991 ; Raaijmakers and Weller, 1998 ; De Souza et al, 2003 ; Perneel et al, 2007 ; Mazurier et al, 2009 ; Mendes et al, 2011 ; Michelsen and Stougaard, 2011 ), Streptomyces ( Liu et al, 1996 ; Cha et al, 2016 ), Bacillus ( Sneh et al, 1984 ; Cazorla et al, 2007 ; Abdeljalil et al, 2016 ; Zhang et al, 2016 ), Paenibacillus ( Haggag and Timmusk, 2008 ), Enterobacter ( Schisler and Slininger, 1994 ; Abdeljalil et al, 2016 ), Alcaligenes ( Yuen and Schroth, 1986 ), Pantoea ( Schisler and Slininger, 1994 ), non-pathogenic F. oxysporum ( Sneh et al, 1987 ; Couteaudier and Alabouvette, 1990 ; Larkin et al, 1996 ; Larkin and Fravel, 2002 ; Nel et al, 2006 ; Mazurier et al, 2009 ; Raaijmakers et al, 2009 ), Trichoderma ( Harman et al, 1980 ; Liu and Baker, 1980 ; Chet and Baker, 1981 ; Hadar et al, 1984 ; Smith et al, 1990 ; Mghalu et al, 2007 ), Penicillium janczewskii ( Madi and Katan, 1998 ), V. biguttatum ( Jager and Velvis, 1983 ; Velvis and Jager, 1983 ), Pochonia chlamydosporia ( Yang et al, 2012 ), Clonostachys / Gliocadium ( Smith et al, 1990 ; Rodríguez et al, 2015 ) and P. oligandrum ( Martin and Hancock, 1986 ).…”

Bio-suppression of Sclerotinia Stem Rot of Tomato and Biostimulation of Plant Growth Using Tomato-associated Rhizobacteria

“…Biocontrol is eco-friendly, safe and may provide long-term protection to the crop. Reduced Sclerotinia Stem Rot incidence and severity have been demonstrated in numerous studies and successful disease control was achieved using fungi [10][11][12][13][14], bacteria [7,12,[15][16][17] or biofungicides [18][19][20] in many cropping systems. The most efficient bacteria used for Sclerotinia Stem Rot management belonged mainly to the genera Bacillus [1,9,[12][13]21], Pseudomonas [7,22], Enterobacter [23,24], Serratia [22,[25][26][27], and at a lesser extent Streptomyces, Burkholderia, Pantoea, and Paenibacillus [22,25].…”

Screening Potential of Some Bacterial Species and Trichoderma hrzianum Against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on Cucumber.

“…Control of Sclerotinia stem and root rots diseases have been studied in numerous researches and effective disease control was found by using fungi (Li GQ, et al (2003) and Rodríguez, et al (2015)), bacteria (Berry, et al (2010) and Abdullah, et al (2008)) or biofungicides (Domenech, et al (2006) and Zeng, et al (2012)) in many crops. The most efficient bacteria used for disease control belonged to the genera Bacillus (Gao et al (2014), Elkahoui, et al (2014) Abdullah, et al (2008) Monteiro, et al (2013 Alvarez et al (2012)), Pseudomonas (Berry, et al (2010) and Onaran and Yanar (2011)), Serratia (Onaran and Yanar (2011), El-Tarabily et al (2000) and Kamensky, et al (2003)), and at a lesser extent Streptomyces (Onaran and Yanar (2011) and El-Tarabily et al (2000)).…”