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FREEDOM PALESTINE FREEDOM PALESTINE FREEDOM PALESTINE<br />

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<strong>Post</strong><strong>harvest</strong> Diseases of Fruits <strong>and</strong> Vegetables<br />

(10^ spores ml-i), a reduced percentage of infection could be achieved only<br />

by the highest yeast concentration (10^ cells ml"i). On the other h<strong>and</strong>,<br />

when wounds were inoculated with low concentrations of spores, decay<br />

suppression could be achieved by each of the antagonist concentrations<br />

tested, including the lowest concentration (Chalutz et al., 1991) (Fig. 39).<br />

A similar trend was shown for Trichoderma species antagonistic to<br />

various fungal pathogens: the best activity was generally observed at<br />

high concentrations of the antagonist <strong>and</strong> the lower inoculum levels of<br />

the pathogen (Elad et al., 1982; Mortuza <strong>and</strong> Ilag, 1999).<br />

The marked antagonistic effects attributed to various yeast species<br />

raised the question of the antagonistic capacity of industrial yeasts<br />

commonly used in food processing. Screening of industrial yeasts for<br />

control of P. digitatum in lemons showed that four out of 150 isolates<br />

completely controlled the green mold development. These included one<br />

isolate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae <strong>and</strong> three Kluyveromyces isolates.<br />

None of these isolates was found to produce antibiotics (Cheah <strong>and</strong> Tran,<br />

1995).<br />

Pichia guilliermondii (cells/ml)

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