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Table 3 Commercially developed plant growth-promotion products from streptomycetes

From: Plant growth promotion by streptomycetes: ecophysiology, mechanisms and applications

Streptomycete active ingredients or their metabolites

Comercialized product

Target crop

Plant growth-promotion effects

Streptomyces lydicus WYEC 108

Actinovate® SP/Actinovate® AG (seed application)

Grass, ornamentals, vegetables, and forest species in greenhouses, nurseries, and more

Biocontrol by soil-borne plant pathogens and foliar diseases

Micro108® soluble/Micro108® Seed Inoculant

Food and fiber crops, ornamentals, turf grass, landscape plants, including tree seedlings for transplanting into the forest

Enhances plant vitality and encourages more vigorous root systems

Actino-iron®

For indoor/outdoor greenhouse, nursery, turf grass, ornamental plant, and field uses

Biocontrol of soil-borne plant pathogen

Streptomyces griseoviridis

Mycostop®

Seedling production, vegetables, herbs, and ornamentals

Biocontrol by soil and seed-borne pathogens

Streptomyces avermitilis

AVID® 0.15EC

Shadehouse, greenhouse, field-grown ornamentals, foliage plants, Christmas trees, and other woody ornamentals

Biocontrol of leaf miners, mites, and suppression of aphids, whiteflies, and thrips

VERMITEC® (additional brands AGRI-MEK®)

Cotton, citrus, pome fruit, nuts and vegetables

Biocontrol of mites and insects

PROCLAIM® (additional brands AFFIRM®, DENIM ™)

Vegetables (Brassica, leafy and fruiting vegetables) and cotton

Lepidoptera. Side effects on mites, leaf miners, and thrips

AVICTA®

Cotton, corn, and soybean

Biocontrol of nematodes

  1. Adapted from Hamedi and Mohammadipanah [63]