The presence of the typical white fan leaf mycelia on each piece of bark, the development of A. gallica rhizomorphs and the sporulation of T. atroviride SC1 were assessed. At the end of experiment, for each treatment, the initial pathogen
inoculum plugs (plugs of A. gallica mycelia and rhizomorphs that had been placed on bark 28 days earlier) were transferred and cultured on MEA amended with thiabendazole (SigmaeAldrich; St.Louis, USA,1%), which is a selective medium for basidiomycetes that inhibits the growth of ascomycetes, to check A. gallica viability. The growth of the pathogenwas continuously evaluated over the course of one month of incubation