Table 1.

Microbial Bio-pesticides for the Control of Plant Pathogens

Biocontrol Organism Trade Name Target Target Crops Efficacy (as reported)
Disease
Bacteriophages of Agri Bacterial Tomatoes and Bell pepper/bacterial
Phage™ spot in pepper spot: +
pepper and
tomatoes
and
Xanthomonas spp. bacterial
speck in
tomatoes

and
Pseudomonas
syringae pv. Tomato

Pseudomonas Bio-Save® Post- Apples, pears, Sweet

syringae strain ESC 10LP3 harvest lemons, potato/Rhizopus soft rot:
10 frost oranges, or +
damage grapefruit
and after the fruit
biological is harvested
decay

Pantoea agglomerans Bloomtime Fireblight Apples and Apple/fire blight: ±

strain E325 Biological™ (Erwinia pears
3 amylovora)

Bloomtime Fireblight Apples and Apple/fire blight: ±

Biological™ (Erwinia pears
FD3 amylovora)
 Actinovate® Soilborne Greenhouse, Pumpkin/powdery
SP pathogens: nursery, and mildew: +
Pythium sp turf Pumpkin/Phytophthora le
p.,Rhizocto af blight: o
nia spp.,Ph Pepper/Phytophthora foli
Streptomyces lydicus ytophthora ar blight: +
WYEC 108 spp.,Fusari
um spp.,Ve
rticillium s
pp.,Phymat
otrichum
omnivorum
, and other
root decay
fungi
Foliar
pathogens:
Podosphae
ra spp.,Bot
rytis spp.,S
chlerotinia
spp.,Monili
nia spp.,Alt
ernaria spp
.,Peronosp
ora spp.,
and other
foliar fungi
Ballad® Rust, Soybeans, Soybean/Asian soybean
Plus powdery cereal crops, rust: ±
Biofungicide mildew, and potatoes Soybean/target spot: ±
cercospora Snap bean/ashy stem
, and blight: ±
brown spot Snap bean/rust: +
Bacillus pumilus
QST 2808
 Contans® Sclerotinia Agricultural Snap beans/white mold: ±
WG minor, soils Snap beans/gray mold: o
Sclerotinia Lettuce/white mold: ±
sclerotioru Lettuce/lettuce drop: +
Coniothyrium m
minitans strain
CON/M/91-08
Kodiak® Rhizoctoni Cotton,
Concentrate a, peanuts,
Biological Fusarium, soybeans,
Fungicide Alternaria, wheat, barley,
Bacillus Aspergillus peas, and
subtilis GB03 , and others beans Snap
that attack beans/Fusarium root rot:
the root ±
systems of Snap
plants bean/Rhizoctonia root rot:
o
Pea/Fusarium,
Phoma andPythium: ±
Wheat/Fusarium crown
rot: o
Cucumber/damping-off: o
Fusarium, Cucurbit Dry beans/Fusarium root
Pythium,an vegetables, rot: ±
d Rhizocto flowers, Snap
Trichoderma nia bedding beans/Rhizoctonia root
harzianum Rifai plants, rot: o
strain KRL-AG2 PlantShield ornamentals, Tomato/grey mold: o
® HC fruiting and Potato/silver scurf: +
Biological leafy Gladiolus/Fusarium root
Foliar and vegetables, rot: o
Root cole crops, African daisy/powdery
Fungicide hydroponic mildew: ±
crops, pome Geranium/black leg
fruits, shade disease: o
house, outdoor
nursery, stone
fruit, and tree
nuts
 RootShield® Fusarium, Flowers, Myrtle/leaf milkwort: +
Granules Pythium, bedding Potato/Rhizoctonia canke
and Rhizoc plants, r and black scurf: o
tonia ornamentals, Gladiolus/Fusarium corn
fruiting rot: o
vegetables, Tomato/bacterial speck: ±
herbs and
spices,
hydroponic
crops, leafy
vegetables,
cole crops,
pome fruits,
stone fruits,
and tree nuts
Rhapsody® Fungal and Turf, Creeping bent
bacterial ornamentals, grass/dollar spot, abiotic
diseases, trees, shrubs, stress, brown patch and
Bacillus subtilis brown flowers, anthracnose: o
QST 708 patch, bedding Annual bluegrass (60%)
anthracnos plants, tropical and creeping bentgrass
e, and plants, (40%)/ anthracnose: +
dollar spot seedlings, Tall
conifers, fruity fescue/Pythium blight and
and leafy gray leaf spot: o
vegetables, Geranium/Botrytis blight:
and bulbs +
Dogwood/powdery
mildew: +
Dogwood/Cercospora lea
f spot and spot
anthracnose: o
Serenade® Bacterial Fruits, *
Garden spot, vegetables,
Disease powdery and flowers
Control mildew,
Bacillus Concentrate rust, gray
subtilis strain QST mold, leaf
713 blight,
scab, and
more
Serenade® Bacterial Vegetable, *
Garden spot, fruit, nuts,
Disease powdery ornamentals
Control mildew, plants, annual
Ready to rust, gray and perennial
Use mold, leaf flowering
blight, plants, tropical
scab, and foliage, trees,
more and shrubs
Serenade® Fire Vegetables, Blueberry/anthracnose
MAX™ blight, Botr fruit, nut, and fruit rot: +
ytis, Sour vine crops Blueberry/mummy berry:
rot, ±
rust,Sclerot Cranberry/fruit rot: o
inia, Apple/fire blight: o
powdery Apple/flyspeck: o
mildew, Apple/sooty blotch: o
bacterial Apple/black pox: o
spot Apple/brooks fruit spot: o
Fire Vegetables, Apple/fire blight: o
blight, Botr fruit, nut, and Red raspberry/fruit rot: o
ytis, sour vine crops Grape/bunch rot and
rot, powdery mildew: +
rust,Sclerot Turnip greens/bacterial
inia, leaf spot: o
Serenade® powdery Hydrangea/powdery
Wettable mildew, mildew: +
Powder bacterial Pansy/Cercospora leaf
Biofungicide spot spot: +
Pumpkin, cantaloupe, and
honeydew/powdery
mildew: +
Lettuce/lettuce drop: ±
Lettuce/powdery mildew:
+
Broccoli/downy mildew:
+
 Serenade® Fungi and Food crops Cranberry/cotton ball: ±
ASO bacteria including Spinach/Stemphylium leaf
that cause cherries, spot: o
scab, cucurbits, Snap
powdery grapes, leafy bean/Rhizoctonia root rot:
mildew, vegetables, o
sour rot, peppers, Radish/hypocotyl root rot
downy potatoes, and clubroot: ±
mildew, tomatoes, and
and early walnuts
leaf spot,
early
blight, late
blight,
bacterial
spot, and
walnut
blight
diseases
Soil Gard Ornamental Geranium/root rot: o
12G3 and food crop Gladiolus/Fusarium corn
plants grown rot: o
in Poinsettia/Pythium root
Pythium,
Trichoderma virens greenhouses, rot: +
Rhizoctoni
(formerly Gliocladiu nurseries, Azalea/Phytophthora root
a, and root
m virens) interiorscapes, rot: o
rots
and outdoors Potato/black scurf: +
Potato/Rhizoctonia andStr
eptomyces: o
Snap beans/gray mold: ±
Snap beans/white mold: o
Cucumber/damping-off: o
 Sonata® Fungal Many food Lima beans/white mold: o
pests such and non-food Lettuce/powdery mildew:
as molds, crops, +
mildews, including trees Lettuce/lettuce drop: ±
Bacillus pumilus
blights, and susceptible to Broccoli/downy mildew:
QST 2808
rusts sudden oak +
death Pumpkin/powdery
syndrome. For mildew: o
use outdoors, Radish/downy mildew: +
including Radish/clubroot
nurseries, andRhizoctonia hypocotyl
landscapes, root rot: o
and rights-of-
way, and for
use in
greenhouses
Fusarium, Agronomic Soybean/Rhizoctonia
Pythium,an field and row solaniand drought: o
d Rhizocto crops, alfalfa,
nia hay and forage
crops, bulb
Trichoderma crops,
harzianum cucurbits,
Rifai strain KRL- fruiting
AG2 vegetables,
herbs, spices,
leafy
vegetables,
cole crops,
T-22™ HC legumes, root
crops, small
grains, and
tuber crops
 T-22™ Fusarium, Agronomic Pea/root rot: ±
Planter Box Pythium,an field and row Bean (baby lima)/root rot:
d Rhizocto crops, alfalfa, o
nia hay and forage Pea/root rot: o
crops, bulb
crops,
cucurbits,
fruiting
vegetables,
herbs, spices,
leafy
vegetables,
cole crops,
legumes, root
crops, small
grains, and
tuber crops
Yield Rhizoctoni Legumes Soybean/root rot: o
Shield® a and Soybean/Rhizoctonia
Concentrate Fusarium damping-off: o
Biological Snap beans/root rot: o
Bacillus
Fungicide
pumilus GB34

1. The efficacy ratings are based on the results of studies published between 2000 and
2009 in the Plant Disease Management Reports (plantmanagementnetwork.org).
These ratings are built on a comparison between untreated controls and the
application of each product independently.
2. + Evidence for disease control and/or yield increase, ± mixed results, o no obvious
response to treatment, and * no data available in the selected PDM reports.
3. These products are not currently registered for use in the state of Ohio, USA.
 Table 2. Biochemical Biopesticides for the Control of Plant Pathogens
Trade Name Ingredient Manufacturer Target Crop Target Efficacy
Disease (as
reported)
Garlic garlic oil Garlic Research Cucurbit crops, forage Brown Tomato/
Barrier® Labs, Inc. crops, fruiting spot, early
vegetables, herbs, kiwi, insect blight: o
leafy vegetables, infestation
legume vegetables, nut
trees, ornamentals,
peanuts, pome fruit
trees, root and tuber
vegetables, small fruits
and berries, stone fruit
trees, sugarcane,
sunflowers, tropical
fruits, turfgrass

Neem oil Green Light Vegetables, fruits, nuts, Powdery Crapemyr

Company and spices mildew, tle/Cerco
rust, sporaleaf
anthracnos spot: o
e, leaf Dogwood
spot, and /powdery
Green other mildew:
Light® diseases +
Neem Dogwood
Concentrate /spot
anthracno
se: o
Dogwood
/ Cercosp
ora leaf
spot: ±
 Neem oil Certis USA Citrus, tree fruits, Alternaria Tomato/e
cucurbits, bulb, cole , arly
and leafy vegetables, anthracnos blight: o
legume and fruiting e, leaf Bean,
vegetables, root and blight, Bot snap/
tuber vegetables, small rytis, white
fruits and berries, herbs greasy mold;
Trilogy® and spices, cereal and spot, leaf gray
grains, nuts, corn, spot, post mold: ±
alfalfa, cotton bloom Grape/
fruit drop, powdery
powdery mildew: o
mildew, Pumpkin/
molds, Powdery
scabs, mildew:
rusts, shot ±
hole Almond/
brown
rot: +
Almond/
scab: o
Sweet
cherry/
powdery
mildew:
±
Neem oil Certis USA Citrus, tree fruits, Alternaria Poinsettia
cucurbits, bulb, cole , /powdery
and leafy vegetables, anthracnos mildew:
legume and fruiting e, leaf +
vegetables, root and blight, Bot
tuber vegetables, small rytis,
fruits and berries, herbs greasy
and spices, cereal and spot, leaf
grains, nuts, corn, spot, post
alfalfa, cotton bloom
Triact® fruit drop,
70EC powdery
mildew,
molds,
scabs,
rusts, shot
hole
 Jojoba oil IJO Products, Garden and Powdery Pumpkin/
LLC commercial vegetables mildew powdery
and crops and mildew:
whitefly ±

E-RASE®
Fish oil Omega Protein, Field crops, orchards, Black Tomato/
Inc. vineyards, and spot, late
greenhouse powdery blight,
mildew, bacterial
and greasy spot: o
spot Tomato/
SeaCide® bacterial
spot;
early
blight: +
Summer
squash/
powdery
mildew:
±
Extract of Heads Up Plant Soybeans, potato, Soil-borne Peas/root
Chenopodi Protectants tomato, peas, beans, plant root rot: +
um quinoa and wheat rot and Tomato/e
saponins damping- arly
off disease blight: +

Heads Up®
Plant
Protectant
1. The efficacy ratings are based on the results of studies published between 2000 and
2009 in the Plant Disease Management Reports (plantmanagementnetwork.org).
These ratings are built on a comparison between untreated controls and the
application of each product independently.
2. + Evidence for disease control and/or yield increase, ± mixed results, o no obvious
response to treatment, and * no data available in the selected PDM reports.
3. These products are not currently registered for use in the state of Ohio, USA.