Patent ID: 8609083
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: A01N

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling a fungal pathogen consisting essentially of culturing strain Xenorhabdus bovienii SN, NRRL B-50010, or strain Photorhabdus luminescens VS, NRRL B-50007, in a nutrient culture medium and under conditions effective for the production of antifungal metabolites, extracting the antifungal metabolites from the culture, and contacting the extracted antifungal metabolites with a fungal pathogen of the group consisting of Glomerella cingulata, Phomopsis, Phytophthora cactorum , and Fusicladosporium effusum , wherein the extracted antifungal metabolites inhibit the growth of the fungal pathogen on a plant selected from the group consisting of Carya illinoensis and Prunus persica.