• Bacterization of wheat seeds with P. fluorescens strains producing the antibiotic phenazine-1- carboxylic acid (PCA) resulted in significant suppression of take-all in about 60% of field trials

• The fact that GMOs seeds were accepted by environmental NGOs in the responsible soy specification of the RTRS illustrates this desire to channel agriculture in the direction of forest conservation without challenging its productive and economic logics.

• The addition of solid vermicompost to tomato seeds significantly reduced infection caused by Fusarium lycopersici (Szczech, 1999) and Phytophthora nicotianae (Szczech and Smolinska, 2001).