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Table 2 Impact of six bacterial isolates and chemical fungicide on strawberry black root rot disease in the field

From: Native bacteria for field biocontrol of black root rot in Egyptian strawberry

Antagonistic bacterial isolates

Strawberry black root rot disease

Disease incidence

Reduction %

Disease severity

Reduction %

Paenibacillus polymyxa 1

14.0d

73.1

14.0e

72.0

P. polymyxa 2

12.0d

76.9

11.0e

78.0

P. polymyxa 3

24.0c

53.8

22.0d

56.0

Bacillus brevis 1

28.0b

46.2

27.0c

46.0

B. brevis 2

15.0d

71.2

15.0e

70.0

B. brevis 3

30.0b

42.3

32.0b

36.0

Actamyl 3 g/l (fungicide)

13.0d

75.0

12.0e

76.0

Control

52.0a

0.0

50.0a

0.0

  1. *Means in a column followed by the same letter are not significantly (P ≤ 0.05) different according to DNMRT