HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2022, Vol. 61 ›› Issue (21): 79-85.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2022.21.014

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Study on the prevention and control of taro soft rot by biochar environment combined with biocontrol bacteria Bacillus amyloliquefaciens P4

WANG Ying-le, LI Yong-lin, LIANG Xue, HUANG Shu-fen, ZHANG Lian-hui, LIAO Li-sheng, ZHOU Xiao-fan   

  1. Integrative Microbiology Research Centre/Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
  • Received:2021-09-24 Online:2022-11-10 Published:2022-12-10

Abstract: In order to explore the biological control resources of taro soft rot, the antagonistic effect of biochar environment and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens on the pathogen of taro soft rot (Dickeya fangzhongdai) and the biological control effect were discussed. A strain P4 antagonistic to Dickeya fangzhongdai ZXC1 was screened from healthy taro plants by plate confrontation method and classified and identified. The antagonistic effect of biocontrol bacteria was verified by competitive culture. Using the confrontation plate method, whether biochar could promote the secretion of antagonistic substances by biocontrol bacteria was determined according to the size of inhibition zone; the counting statistics method was used to determine the number of pathogenic bacteria and antagonistic bacteria in different concentrations of biochar environment. Pot experiments were carried out under different biochar contents to analyze the changes in the number of pathogenic bacteria of Dickeya fangzhongdai under biochar environment and biocontrol bacteria, and the incidence of taro was counted. The results showed that P4 strain had a good inhibitory effect on the pathogen of Dickeya fangzhongdai. Appropriate amount of biochar could enhance the control effect of biocontrol bacteria on soft rot of taro, and could directly inhibit the pathogenicity of pathogenic bacteria; the effect of biochar directly stimulating biocontrol bacteria to enhance their secretion of antagonistic substances was very weak. The number of biocontrol bacteria and pathogens increased with the increase of biochar concentration. P4 strain could be used as biocontrol bacteria of taro soft rot. Adding an appropriate amount of biochar could promote the growth and reproduction of biocontrol bacteria in soil to occupy a good ecological niche, enhance the biocontrol effect of biocontrol bacteria on taro soft rot, and only adding biochar could also inhibit the pathogenic bacteria.

Key words: soft rot of taro (Dickeya fangzhongdai), Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, biochar, microbial control, biocontrol bacteria

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