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Application of cells of two isolates of fluorescent pseudomonads from soil to wheat seedlings prior to inoculation with Mycosphaerella graminicola (anamorph. Septoria tritici) or Puccinia recondite f.sp, tritici markedly reduced symptom expression. These Pseudomonas isolates, LEC 1 and LEC 2, also reduced in vitro growth of Geotrichum candidum. Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotium rolfsii and S. tritici. Growth of the melanin-producing isolate IsR 398 of S. tritici was inhibited on silica gel thin-layer chromatograms by compound(s) extracted with diethyl ether from King's Medium B colonized by Pseudomonas isolate LEC 1. The growth of the antagonistic pseudomonads on defined medium was not affected by the following commercial fungicides: benomyl, captafol, chlorothalonil, fenarimol, mancozeb, maneb, metalaxyl, prochloraz, propiconazole, triadimefon, and the herbicides 2,4-D and diclofop-methyl at the recommended concentrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pomegranate fruit rot, caused by Coniella granati, is reported for the first time in Israel in 2010, following an interception of contaminated grafting material imported in 2006. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dragon fruit (pitaya) fruit blotch and stem rot, caused by Bipolaris cactivora, is reported for the first time in Israel. Different symptoms of fruit blotch appear on two different cultivars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]