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Biological Control of Postharvest Date Fruit Rots using Microbial Bioagents and Bio-Fungicides

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Food science.

Abstract

Postharvest diseases cause considerable losses to harvested date fruits during transportation and storage. The recent trend is shifting toward safer and more eco-friendly alternatives for the control of postharvest decays. Of various biological approaches, the use of antagonistic microorganisms is becoming popular throughout the world. Several postharvest diseases can now be controlled by microbial antagonists. In this study Trichoderma harzianum (1), T.asperellum, Trichoderma longibrachiatum, T.album, Trichoderma harzianum (2), and T.34 (T.asperellum) revealed different degrees of hyper parasitism to the growth of A.alternata, C.herbarum and Th.paradoxa on PDA medium. The greatest reduction occurring for C.herbarum, followed by A.alternata, while Th.paradoxa was less affected ones. Bacterial bioagents tested had inhibitory effect on the mycelial growth of the pathogenic fungi A.alternata, C.herbarum and Th.paradoxa compared with control. In this case, Brevandimonas vesicularis and Paenibacillus polymyxa gave the highest reduction of the mycelial growth of A.alternata, B.subtilis (1) and Ps.fiuorescens (1) came in the last.  In addition, Different concentrations of four bio-fungicides and bacteriocides were evaluated for their effectiveness to control date fruit rots under cold storage during 2020 and 2021 seasons. Futhermore, using (bio-control) followed by plant guard and Bio-Arc at 3g/L.W were the most effective biocides which minimized date fruit rot caused with A.alternata to a large degree compared with untreated date fruits. Generally, all tested fungicides and bio-agents were effective against the causal fungus in vitro and in vivo trials, but with different degrees.
 

DOI

10.21608/aujst.2023.312932

Keywords

date palm, biological control, fruit rots, Microbial bioagents and Bio-fungicides

Authors

First Name

Aya

Last Name

Kassem

MiddleName

Hussein

Affiliation

Assistant researcher, CLDPRD, Agricultural Research Center

Email

dr.ayakassem@gmail.com

City

Aswan

Orcid

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First Name

Ezz

Last Name

alabbasy

MiddleName

Gad

Affiliation

Head Research at the Central Laboratory for Date palm Researches and Development, Agricultural Research Centre., Giza, Egypt.

Email

ezzgad20@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Alshaikh

MiddleName

Mostafa

Affiliation

Prof. of Plant Pathology, Al-Azhar Univ. Assuit

Email

dr.alshaikh3@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abd-Elmonaim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Assistant professor of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Aswan University

Email

mmon3m@gmail.com

City

Aswan

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-

Volume

3

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

42880

Issue Date

2023-06-01

Receive Date

2023-08-15

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

199

Page End

217

Print ISSN

2735-3087

Online ISSN

2735-3095

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https://aujst.journals.ekb.eg/article_312932.html

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312,932

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Original papers

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2,312

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Publication Title

Aswan University Journal of Sciences and Technology

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https://aujst.journals.ekb.eg/

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Biological Control of Postharvest Date Fruit Rots using Microbial Bioagents and Bio-Fungicides

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Created At

29 Dec 2024