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Construction of a Recombinant Bacillus velezensis Strain as an Integrated Control Agent Against Plant Diseases and Insect Pests

  • Roh, Jong-Yul (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Liu, Qin (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Jae-Young (Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Wang, Yong (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Shim, Hee-Jin (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Xu, Hong Guang (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Gyung-Ja (Chemical Biotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Cheol (Chemical Biotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology) ;
  • Je, Yeon-Ho (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2009.10.31
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Abstract

To construct a new recombinant strain of Bacillus velezensis that has antifungal and insecticidal activity via the expression of the insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein, a B. thuringiensis expression vector (pHT1K-1Ac) was generated that contained the B. thuringiensis cry1Ac gene under the control of its endogenous promoter in a minimal E. coli-B. thuringiensis shuttle vector (pHT1K). This vector was introduced into a B. velezensis isolate that showed high antifungal activities against several plant diseases, including rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea), rice sheath blight (Rhizotonia solani), tomato gray mold (Botrytis cinerea), tomato late blight (Phytophthora infestans), and wheat leaf rust (Puccinia recondita), by electroporation. The recombinant B. velezensis strain was confirmed by PCR using cry1Ac-specific primers. Additionally, the recombinant strain produced a protein approximately 130 kDa in size and parasporal inclusion bodies similar to B. thuringiensis. The in vivo antifungal activity assay demonstrated that the activity of the recombinant B. velezensis strain was maintained at the same level as that of wild-type B. velezensis. Furthermore, it exhibited high insecticidal activity against a lepidopteran pest, Plutella xylostella, although its activity was lower than that of a recombinant B. thuringiensis strain, whereas wild-type B. velezensis strain did not show any insecticidal activity. These results suggest that this recombinant B. velezensis strain can be used to control harmful insect pests and fungal diseases simultaneously in one crop.

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