On the other
hand both boiled as well as unboiled cell free supernatants of lactic
acid bacteria were able to inhibit the fungal pathogen which indicated
the thermostable nature of their antifungal principles.
In vivo application of these two rhizospheric bacteria by spraying
on the foliar parts showed encouraging observations. Spraying
of fully grown cultures of VBC7 and VBK1 twice on jackfruit foliage,
one before appearance on inflorescence and the other immediate
after, could reduce the incidence of rot formation in fruits by four
times and six times by the strains respectively in comparison to
their uninoculated controls (Table 2). In planta challenge studies