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Fusarium ilts were serious diseases of a large number of field and horticultural crops in temperate and tropical countries. The introduction of specific strains of soil bacteria called fluorescent pseudomonads to soil infested with Fusarium oxysporum controlled the pathogens in glasshouse experiments. In the United States, commercial crops of carnations had been protected sagainst Fusarium wilt by the additions of small amount (600 g/m2) of a "suppressive soil" bearing large numbers of the fluorescent pseodomonads to infested carnations beds. In france, similar "suppresssive soil" had been effective in controlling rock melon wilt. However, the

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