Microbial Analysis and Test of Plant Pathogen Antagonism of Municipal and Farm Composts

Risks and benefits of soil amendment with composts in relation to plant pathogens

“…There has been a considerable amount of research into identifying the antagonistic bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes responsible for the disease control effect of composts (Stockwell et al 1994;Noble and Coventry 2005;Arora et al 2005). This work has often been conducted with plate challenge assays to determine which micro-organisms isolated from compost were antagonistic towards soil-borne pathogens.…”