Effective Screening of Antagonist for the Biological Control of Soilborne Infectious Disease (Damping-Off)

  • LEE BAEK-SEOK (Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • LEE HYANG-BOK (Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • CHOI SUNG-WON (Greenbiotech. Co. Ltd.) ;
  • YUN HYUN-SHIK (Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • KIM EUN-KI (Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University)
  • Published : 2005.08.01

Abstract

An efficient method of selecting an antagonistic strain for use as a biological control agent strain was developed. In this improved method, the surface tension reduction potential of an isolate was included in the 'decision factor,' in addition to two other factors; the growth rate and pathogen inhibition. By using a statistically designed method, an isolate from the soil was selected and identified as Bacillus sp. GB 16. In the pot test, this strain showed the best performance among the isolated strains. The lowest disease incidence rate and fastest seed growth were observed when the Bacillus sp. GB 16 was used. The action of the surface tension reducing component was assumed to enhance the wetting, spreading, and residing of the antagonistic strain in the rhizosphere. This result showed that the improved selection method was quite effective in selecting the best antagonistic strain for the biological control of soilborne infectious plant pathogens.

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