**2. Materials and Methods**

#### *2.1. Source of Pathogen*

The pathogen was received from Al-Azhar University's Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology (RCMB). The pathogen was grown on PDA media and incubated at 28 ± 2 ◦C for 5 days before being preserved at 4 ◦C. According to [2], the pathogenic fungus inoculum was ready.
