Toward the Quantification of Confrontation (Dual Culture) Test: A Case Study on the Biological control of Pythium aphanidermatum with Trichoderma asperelloides

Babak S Pakdaman^1*, Ebrahim Mohammadi Goltapeh^2*, Bahram Mohammad Soltani³, Ali Asghar Talebi⁴, Mohsen Nadepoor², Joanna S Kruszewska⁵, Sebastian Pilsyk⁵, Sabrina Sarrocco⁶ and Giovanni Vannacci⁶

¹Department of Phytomedicine, Ramin Agricultural and Natural Resources University, Ahwaz, Iran

²Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

³Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Genetics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

⁴Department of Agricultural Entomology, Agricultural Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

⁵Laboratory of Fungal Glycobiology, Division of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland

⁶Department of Tree Science, Entomology and Plant Pathology , “Giovanni Scaramuzzi”, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

^*Corresponding Author(s): Babak S Pakdaman, Department of Phytomedicine, Ramin Agricultural and Natural Resources University, Ahwaz, Iran, Tel: +0098 914 8071770 Email: Ebrahim Mohammadi Goltapeh, Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Email: