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Heat-tolerant Trichoderma from Brazil's Caatinga could be biofungicides for hot, dry farms
Embrapa researchers isolated 14 strains of five Trichoderma species from native scrub and irrigated melon fields in Bahia and Piauí; strains from farmed soil kept growing at 35 °C, outcompeted Rhizoctonia and Macrophomina head-on and cut other pathogens' growth by more than 70% with volatile compoun