Biological Control of Some Pathogenic Fungi of Marjoram

Rizk, Islam M. H.; Amaar, Mohamed M. M.; Ibraheim, Ibraheim A.; Othman, Abdel-Hameed M.

doi:10.21608/rjab.2015.104415

Biological Control of Some Pathogenic Fungi of Marjoram

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat city, Sadat city, Egypt

² Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Minufiya University, Egypt.

³ Department of Plant Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat city, Egypt

10.21608/rjab.2015.104415

Abstract

Marjoram is considered the most important medicinal plant, which is cultivated in Egypt and many countries. Fusarium aquaductuum, fusarium dimerum isolate (1), fusarium dimerum isolate (2) and fusarium aquaductuum var medium are isolated from marjoram plant. These pathogens cause witting of plant. Trichoderma hamatum and Bacillus megaterium are used as biocontrol agents. They applied to inhibit the growth of these pathogens in lab experiments and gave good result that increase quality of marjoram.

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