Fig. 5From: Rhizosphere phage communities drive soil suppressiveness to bacterial wilt diseaseExperimental validation of the effects of ‘secondary phages’ on pathogen abundances and bacterial wilt disease incidence. a–c Examples of colony and plaque morphologies of three ‘inhibitor bacteria’ and ‘inhibitor-associated phages’. d–f The effect of three ‘inhibitor bacteria’ and ‘inhibitor-associated phages’ on R. solanacearum density (red fluorescence intensity (RFI)) in all possible combinations, n = 8 for all treatments. g–l The effect of three ‘inhibitor bacteria’ on bacterial wilt disease incidence (g–i, n = 5 for all treatments) and pathogen density (j–l, n = 6 for all treatments) when applied alone or co-inoculated with ‘inhibitor-associated phages’ during tomato greenhouse experiments. In d–l, dashed lines and shading indicate the mean and standard deviation of pathogen-only control treatments, respectively, and statistical significances between treatments were determined by one-way ANOVA where *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. n.s., non-significant (see Additional file 2: Tables S8–S11 for details; all error bars show standard deviation)Back to article page