A Compost Treatment Acts as a Suppressive Agent in Phytophthora capsici - Cucurbita pepo Pathosystem by Modifying the Rhizosphere Microbiota.

ABSTRACT: Phytophthora capsici Leonian (PHC) is a filamentous pathogen oomycete that causes root, fruit, foliar and crown rot over a wide host range, including the economically and nutritionally important summer squash (Cucurbita pepo var. cylindrica L.) crop. PHC chemical control strategies are difficult to adopt, due to the limited number of registered chemicals that are permitted and the scalar harvest system. For these reasons, other strategies, such as the use of waste-based composts that can act as suppressive agents against several soilborne pathogens, have been studied intensively. It is well known that compost's microbiota plays an important role to confer its suppressive ability. In this study, four different composts were analyzed with both 16S rRNA gene and 18S rRNA

SUBMITTER: Bellini A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7327441 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature