Improving the nematicidal potential of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Lysinibacillus sphaericus against the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita using protoplast fusion technique

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 3 Nematicidal effect of bacterial strains against Meloidogyne incognita infecting tomato plants

Treatments	Meloidogyne incognita parameters
Treatments	J₂ in soil	% Red.	Galls/plant	% Red.	Egg masses/plant	% Red.
Fusant Bas8	347^c	72.68	117^c	58.36	92^c	55.34
B. amyloliquefaciens	834^b	34.33	165^b	41.28	204^a	0.97
L. sphaericus	736^b	42.05	181^b	35.59	158^b	23.30
B. amyloliquefaciens + L. sphaericus	766^b	39.69	179^b	36.30	114^c	44.66
Control (untreated)	1270^a	–	281^a	–	206^a	–

Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different by Duncan’s multiple range test (P ≤ 0.05)