Hadar, Y., Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Elad, Y., Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Chet, I., Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Henis, Y., Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Elad, Y., Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Chet, I., Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Henis, Y., Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. produced macroscopic multihyphal mycelial strands when growing over a Trichoderma harzianum colony. Direct contact between S. rolfsii and a viable colony of T. harzianum was essential for induction of strand development. Trichoderma harzianum induced strand formation on a medium supplemented with di- or polysaccharides consisting of glucose monomers but not when grown on glucose supplemented media. However, when mycelia of S. rolfsii grown on a glucose supplemented medium grew over a T. harzianum colony grown on a glucoseless medium, S. rolfsii still produced mycelial strands. It is suggested that the aggregated mycelial strand enables the plant pathogen to grow through soil or over an inhospitable surface. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
