Report on the characterization of the fungal strain Trichoderma harzianum ITEM 908.

The study was produced upon request of the Company Agrifutur S.r.l. for registration purposes in compliance with the EU Regulation (EC) n. 1107/2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC. The issues that Agrifutur asked to be addressed by this study were: 1)Revision of the molecular identification at the species level of T. harzianum Rifai strain ITEM 908; 2)Identification of a variable region of the T. atrobrunneum (formerly T. harzianum) ITEM 908 genome suitable for the univocal identification at strain level; 3)Development of a molecular method based on PCR amplification of the diagnostic variable DNA region of T. atrobrunneum (formerly T. harzianum) ITEM 908 for the univocal identification of ITEM 908 at strain level;