Antifungal Methylobacterium compositions and methods of use

A method for suppressing a disease caused by a plant pathogenic fungus, wherein said method comprises applying a composition comprising a Methylobacterium strain comprising NLS0089 (NRRL B-50933) to a plant or a plant part in an amount that provides for reduction of incidence and/or severity of disease caused by said plant pathogenic fungus in said plant, plant part, or a plant grown from the plant part relative to incidence and/or severity of disease in a control plant, control plant part, or control plant grown from the control plant part that had not received an application of said composition, wherein the plant pathogenic fungus is selected from the group consisting of a Rhizoctonia sp., a Fusarium sp., a Pythium sp., a Septoria sp., a Cercospora sp., and a Sclerotinia sp.