“…In addition to chemical control, cultural control measures may be used to reduce the amount of P. citricarpa inoculum (Bellotte et al ., , 2013; Schutte and Kotzé, ), such as the removal of leaf litter with machines (Bellotte et al ., ; Scaloppi et al ., ; Spósito et al ., ; Truter, ), the acceleration of leaf litter decomposition with urea, ammonium sulphate, sugarcane bagasse (Bellotte et al ., ; Dewdney et al ., ; Kotzé, ; van Bruggen et al ., ), the mulching with plants that grow between rows of orchards to cover leaf litter (Bellotte et al ., ; Schutte and Kotzé, ), the pruning of dead twigs (Silva et al ., ; Silva‐Junior et al ., ), irrigation and balanced nutrition (Calavan, ; Dewdney et al ., ; Kotzé, ), and the harvesting for optimal fruit quality and prevention of overlapping fruit sets (Kotzé, ; Spósito et al ., , ). Biological control of CBS with fungi, including P. capitalensis , and bacteria have shown inhibitory effect against P. citricarpa in vitro and in vivo (Almeida, ; Kupper et al ., ; Pena et al ., ; Santos et al ., ; Tran et al ., ); however, there is no biocontrol agent that controls CBS with fungicide‐like efficiency under field conditions.…”