
%0 Journal Article
%A Sivasithamparam, K 
%A Parker, CA 
%T Effect of Certain Isolates of Soil Fungi on Take-All of Wheat
%J Australian Journal of Botany
%D 1980/09/01
%V 28
%N 4
%P 421-427
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9800421
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BT9800421 
%X Of 41 soil fungi isolated from the roots of wheat 17 reduced the severity of take-all of wheat caused by Gaeomannomyces graminis var. tritici in unsterile yellow sand. Some isolates showing potential as biocontrol agents were tested in unsterile wheat-field soil. In such tests Phialophora fastigiata, P. malorum, P. hoffmanniiM and Penicillium patulam gave significant protection against take-all, but the best control was given by three species of Fusarium. The plants exposed to F. oxysporum and the take-all pathogen together produced shoots significantly more vigorous than uninoculated controls receiving no fungi. F. oxysporum also significantly increased the shoot weight of wheat in the absence of the pathogen. 
