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Competition and antibiosis in the biological control of potato scab.
Canadian journal of microbiology - 1 Apr 2001
Neeno-Eckwall E C, Kinkel L L, Schottel J L
Abstract excerpt
Nonpathogenic, antibiotic-producing streptomycetes have been shown to reduce potato scab when added to disease-conducive soil. Spontaneous mutants of the pathogenic Streptomyces scabies RB4 that are resistant to at least one antibiotic activity produced by the nonpathogenic suppressive isolates Streptomyces diastatochromogenes strain PonSSII and S. scabies PonR have been isolated. To determine the importance of...
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