Half of the jars were inoculated with 10 mL of a suspension of T. atroviride SC1 conidia in sterile deionized water (SDW; 3 107 conidia mL1) and half were treated with the same volume of SDW.The jars were not hermetically sealed, in order to allow air exchange,and were incubated in the dark at 25 ± 0.5 C. These were also the conditions under which the inoculum was kept and the same incubation temperature was used in all of the experiments described in this paper