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Trichoderma, inoculation tests for cultures of 89 different shiitake (
Lentinula edodes) strains showed that the resistance of shiitake in a
wood-powder medium correlated positively to that in 28-month-old bedlo
gs when T. harzianum was inoculated. Mycelial growth rate of shiitake
in an agar medium or in the wood-powder medium also was correlated wit
h the resistance of shiitake bedlogs, although the interaction in the
ag ar medium appeared to be irrelevant; The amount of damage to shiita
ke caused by T. harzianum had a positive correlation with that by T. p
olysporum both in the wood-powder medium and in bedlogs. Strains havin
g a high wood-rotting ability in bedlogs tended to have the ability to
reject Trichoderma in the wood-powder medium. The inhibition rates of
shiitake mycelial growth by trichopolyn proved not to correlate to th
e rate of damage by T. polysporum.