| Antagonist was applied as either seed or foliar treatments and the efficacy of disease suppression was determined by disease incidence and systemic resistance induction. Under greenhouse, the threshold concentration of each antagonist required for significant (P=0.05) suppression of BLS was 1*10**(6) and 1*10**(8) cfu/ml for seed and foliar spray applications respectively. Combined seed and foliar treatments with antagonist provided higher induction of plant resistance than application either seed or foliar alone, as account by correlated accumulation of defense-related enzyme activity, beta-1,3-glucanase. Field experiment that revealed 54.7 percent severe epidemic of BLS resulted in 62.2 percent disease control respectively according to the experimental... |
