The authors are very grateful to Prof. Younes Y. Molan for
providing the pure cultures of the two species used in our
study. We also very thankful to Dr. Mahmoud El-Komi for
his technical assistance in the laboratory work. The authors
also gratefully acknowledge their appreciation to the
Agriculture Research Center at the College of Food and agricultural
Sciences and Deanship of Scientific Research, King
Saud University for supporting this research work.