MATERIALS AND METHODS
Bacterial and fungi strains
The pathogen fungal strainFusarium oxysporum
f.sp. cubense(FOC), as well as a tested antagonistic
bacterial strainP. polymyxaSQR-21 and a tested antagonistic fungal strain T. harzianumT37, were provided by the Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic
Solid Waste Utilization, Nanjing Agriculture University, China (Wu et al., 2009; Ling et al., 2010). Two
bacterial isolates showing the strongest antagonism