الفهرس 
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Abstract
Corn (Zea mays L.) is known to be one of the important cereal crops in Egypt which is rated the third after wheat and rice for human consumption and animal feeding. The cultivated area with maize in Egypt had reached 1.773, 452 feddans in 2001 yielding 24.54 ardab/feddan (Ministry of Agriculture and Land reclamation, 2002). In A.R.E., maize is subjected to infection of many diseases. In some areas one disease or more may become acute and cause great damages such as: seedling rot and wilting caused by Fusarium species, and complex stalk rot of maize primarily caused by Cephalosporium maydis (Samra et a/., 1962) which may cause 40% yield loss (Samra et a/., 1971). Such diseases are difficult to be controlled by conventional methods, therefore, using other means for disease management is strongly encouraged. Recently, there has been considerable interest in biological control as an alternative to chemical control.