摘要 |
The present invention provides a novel biocontrol agent useful and effective for controlling plant pathogenic attacks in commercial crops, characterized by being an isolate or isolates of one or more of the bacterial strains belonging to the group containing the Pseudomonas spp. strains Ki72, Ab131, Ki 353, MF416 and Ma 358 deposited at The National Collections of Industrial and Marine Bacteria Limited (NCIMB), Aberdeen, Scotland and having received the NCIMB accession numbers 40936, 40940, 40941, 40942 and 41010, respectively. Said isolates were deposited under the terms of the Budapest Treaty. The invention also provides a plant disease controlling composition and a method of controlling plant deseases caused by pathogenic funghi using one or more of the bacterial strains of the invention. |