Native Bacillus amyloliquefaciens W2 as a potential biocontrol for Fusarium o…

Fusarium corm rot is the major destructive disease of Crocus sativus, a perennial herb whose stigma forms the commercially important spice Bsaffron^. In the present study we isolated a native Bacillus strain with antagonistic activity against a Fusarium oxysporum isolate causing the disease. Three fungi, Fusarium oxysporum, F. solani and Penicillium sp., were isolated from the corms showing cla…