Current and future investigations on the antagonistic activity of Physarum species from Zea mays on plant pathogenic fungi causing mycotoxin contaminations and damping off diseases Meise Botanic Garden
Some Myxomycete species are fungivorous e.g. Badhamia utricularis and some of them produce antifungal substances. Therefore, they hold the potential to be used in biocontrol as antagonists to fungal plant pathogens. Mycotoxigenic fungi contaminating feed and food with secondary metabolites bear considerable health risks for animals and humans and are an unsolved problem in agriculture. Damping off diseases caused by a variety of soil born fungi, ...