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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
  • To: market-farming
  • Subject: Re: Fungal inoculants (was Mycostop)
  • Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:18:16 -0500


On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:00:46 -0800 (PST), farm2gates AT excite.com wrote:


>On 07 Mar 2000, Lawrence F. London asked "...Are there other fungal
>inoculants that can be used to grow healtheir seedlings?..."
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>Yes, there are. (In my off the farm life) the ag. company I work for is
>looking into this. You can access a list of commercially available products
>for biocontrol of plant pathogens from the the home page of the USDA-ARS
>Biocontrol of Plant Diseases Lab at
>http://www.barc.usda.gov/psi/bpdl/bpdl.html

I'll look at this. I had in mind fungal inoculants that promote growth
as opposed to those that directly prevent disease.

>However, it was last updated January 1999. Once you know the names of the
>products/companies, you can search for them the usual way. Most of these are
>bacteria antagonistic to common plant pathogens like alternaria, fusarium,
>pythium, rhizoctonia, verticillium, etc.
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>The products easiest to find are Kodiak, Mycostop, Rootshield, SoilGard, and
>T-22 Planter Box. I have these in the Johnny's and Peaceful Valley catalogs.
>T-22 may be available locally because it is now "mainstreaming" for corn and
>soybeans.

That must be becoming a big field these days.

>Fungal inoculants like mycorrhizae are not on the USDA list. We got some
>good hits by searching for "mycorrhizae",and "vesicular-arbuscular
>mycorrhizae". I have seen this type product for sale in the Nichols and
>Gardens Alive catalogs.

This is what I looking for. I'll do this search and log results for
reference and links from my website. Dr. Ingham is doing great things
in this field. I posted a few old saved news articles from many years
ago on mycorrhizae and VAM's - I'll look for them and repost here
for further discussion.

>Hope this is helpful.

It sure is and many thanks,

Lawrence

>Julie M. Willingham
>The Farm of Two Gates
>Pasco WA
>zone 6b in the dry part of the state
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  • Re: Fungal inoculants (was Mycostop), Lawrence F. London, Jr., 03/08/2000

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