EFFETS DU SUBSTRAT SUR LA PATHOGENECITE DE QUELQUES CHAMPIGNONS DU SOL A L’EGARD DE LA LUZERNE
Under the conditions of the present work with four soil fungi and four substrates, the reaction of alfalfa to Trichoderma viride Pers. ex Fries, Pythium debaryanum Hesse, Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. var. rodelens (Wr.) Gordon, and Rhizoctonia solani Kühn in greenhouse tests was affected by the nature of the growth substrate. The above-mentioned fungi were more pathogenic in artificial substrates, such as the vermiculite-perlite and vermiculite-white sand mixtures, than in natural soil. The increase of pathogenicity in artificial substrates varied with the fungus. In natural soil, the temperature was consistently higher than in artificial media which might account for the difference in pathogenicity of the fungi in the different substrates.