Biocontrol of leaf mold of tomato cladosporium ful vum (Cooke 1883) employing four antagonistic fungi

Leaf mold Cladosporium fulvum (Cooke 1883), produce a tomato crop disease under greenhouse in Peru. As an alternative to control this pathogen the efficiency under in vitro conditions and greenhouse conditions of four antagonistic fungi was probed: Hansfordia pulvinata Berk y Curt 1958, Trichoderma harzianum (Rifai 1969), T, viride (Persoon 1821) and T. virens (Miller, Giddens y Foster 1963). Fungal culture and growth was performed in Agar Sabouraud for Trichoderma spp. and in Agar Juice V₈ for H. pulvinata. The bioassay employed was precolonized plates proposed by Krauss. In in vitro conditions was observed that at 24°C and 72 h growing of T. harzianum was statistically different than the other three species tested, and at 28deg;C was similar to T. viride. At 120 h and 24°C growing of T. virens was different from all species evaluated. At 168 h growing of the three species of Trichoderma, were statistically similar, varying from H. pulvinata. At 28°C and at 120 h and 168 h the results were statistically similar to the three species of Trichoderma, but different to H. pulvinata. Micoparasitism is the most common-action mechanism. Finally, T, harzianum was the most efficient antagonistic fungus because reduced disease in 19.35% under greenhouse conditions.