Soil amendment with epiBL reduced the severity of FSB
disease of barley. Seedling assays were conducted to determine
the effect of soil amendment with epiBL on the development of
FSB symptoms on F. culmorum-inoculated stem base tissue of
Lux and Akashinriki. It resulted in a 28 and 35% reduction, respectively,
in the severity of visual disease symptoms on Lux and
Akashinriki relative to the level of disease symptoms observed on
F. culmorum-inoculated plants grown in soil without epiBL
amendment (P < 0.05; Fig. 2).