Cell wall preparations (CWP) of the pathogen were prepared as
described by Saligkarias et al. (2002) with small modifications.
Briefly, the pathogen mycelium was harvested after growing in
the potato dextrose broth media with fourfold cotton gauzes and
then the mycelium was washed twice with deionised water
through Whatman No.1 filter paper and centrifuged (Centrifuger:
6K15, Sigma, Germany) at 500g for 2 min. After removing the
supernatant, the mycelial mat was sonicated with a probe type