At the end of experiment, for each treatment, the initial pathogen inoculum plugs (plugs of A. gallica mycelia and rhizomorphs that had been placed on bark 28 days earlier) were transferred and cultured on MEA amended with thiabendazole (SigmaeAldrich; St.Louis, USA,1%), which is a selective medium for basidiomycetes that inhibits the growth of ascomycetes, to check A. gallica viability