For the eight-month post-inoculation evaluation,in addition to the regularYMA plus antibiotic media, two additional
replicate dishes per treatment containing a selective
growth-suppressing medium that favours B. bassiana (Chase
et al. 1986) were used to reduce competition of other endophytic
fungi likely to out-compete B. bassiana during reisolation.
Endophytic fungi other than B. bassiana isolated
two and four months post-inoculation were sequenced (see
below).