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Rhizosphere Inhibition of Cucumber Fusarium Wilt by Different Surfactinexcreting Strains of Bacillus subtilis

  • Jia, Ke (Key Laboratory of Pest Management in Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) ;
  • Gao, Yu-Han (Key Laboratory of Pest Management in Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) ;
  • Huang, Xiao-Qin (Institute of Plant Protection, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences) ;
  • Guo, Rong-Jun (Key Laboratory of Pest Management in Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) ;
  • Li, Shi-Dong (Key Laboratory of Pest Management in Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)
  • Received : 2014.10.27
  • Accepted : 2015.02.07
  • Published : 2015.06.01
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Abstract

Bacillus subtilis B006 strain effectively suppresses the cucumber fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum (Foc). The population dynamics of Foc, strain B006 and its surfactin over-producing mutant B841 and surfactin-deficient mutant B1020, in the rhizosphere were determined under greenhouse conditions to elucidate the importance of the lipopeptides excreted by these strains in suppressing Foc. Results showed that B. subtilis strain B006 effectively suppressed the disease in natural soil by 42.9%, five weeks after transplanting, whereas B841 and B1020 suppressed the disease by only 22.6% and 7.1%, respectively. Quantitative PCR assays showed that effective colonization of strain B006 in the rhizosphere suppressed Foc propagation by more than 10 times both in nursery substrate and in field-infected soil. Reduction of Foc population at the cucumber stems in a range of $0.96log_{10}ng/g$ to $2.39log_{10}ng/g$ was attained at the third and the fifth weeks of B006 treatment in nursery substrate. In field-infected soil, all three treatments with B. subtilis suppressed Foc infection, indicated by the reduction of Foc population at a range of $2.91log_{10}ng/g$ to $3.36log_{10}ng/g$ at the stem base, one week after transplanting. This study reveals that the suppression of fusarium wilt disease is affected by the effective colonization of the surfactin-producing B. subtilis strain in the rhizosphere. These results improved our understanding of the biocontrol mechanism of the B. subtilis strain B006 in the natural soil and facilitate its application as biocontrol agent in the field.

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