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ABSTRACT Bacillus sp. L324-92 is suppressive to three root diseases of wheat, namely take-all caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, Rhizoctonia root rot caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG8, and Pythium root rot caused by several Pythium species. Populations of strain L324-92R(12), a rifampicin-resistant mutant of L324-92 applied as a seed treatment, were monitored in the rhizosphere and spermosphere of wheat and compared with populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79RN(10), a known, rhizosphere-competent, biocontrol agent. In growth chamber studies, the population sizes of L324-92R(12) on roots of wheat were approximately 1,000-fold smaller than those of 2-79RN(10) at 5 days after planting, but, thereafter, they increased while those of 2-79RN(10) decreased until the two were equal in size at 45 days after planting. In the field with winter wheat, the population sizes of L324-92R(12) on roots were at least 10-fold smaller than those of 2-79RN(10) during the fall (November 1993) and early spring (March 1994). Thereafter, the population of L324-92R(12) remained constant or increased slightly, while the population of 2-79RN(10) decreased until the two were roughly the same at 10(4) to 10(5) CFU/plant over the period of 150 days (April 1994) until 285 days (harvest) after planting. In growth chamber studies, strain L324-92R(12) remained confined to root sections within 3.5 cm below the seed, whereas 2-79RN(10) was recovered from all root sections ranging from 0.5 to 6.5 cm below the seed. In the field on winter wheat, both strains were recovered from root sections down to 5.0 to 6.5 cm below the seed at 75 days after planting (mid December), but only 2-79RN(10) was recovered at this depth at 90 days after planting. Both strains were recovered from the seed remnants 6 months after planting in the field. Both strains also were recovered from inside the roots and shoots, but population sizes of strain 279RN(10) were greater than those of L324 92R(12). 相似文献
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S. IREN 《EPPO Bulletin》1981,11(2):47-52
Cereal crop production is one of the most important projects in the agricultural improvement programme for Turkey. Overall, wheat represents 61 % of the cereal crop. While wheat production was almost 4 million tons in 1950, this reached a limit of 10 million tons in 1970. A number of diseases continue to afflict the crop from time to time, causing heavy losses. The most important of these are: bunt ( Tilletia foetida and T. caries ), loose smut ( Ustilago nuda ), rusts ( Puccinia strilformis, P. graminis f. sp. tritici, P. recondita f. sp. tritici ), leaf blotch ( Septoria tritici ), root and foot rots ( Fusarium spp., Drechslera sorokiniana, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides, Alternarla alternate, Sclerotium spp. and Rhizoctonia spp.). The diseases appear all over the country. Average losses due to rusts in epidemics are estimated at about 30–35 % in the whole country. Annual losses from covered smut are about 15–20 %, and from loose smut from 0.1 % to almost 20 % depending on the weather conditions of the year, on variety and on locality. Root rots have gained importance in some places, especially in Thrace in the last few years. In addition to the above diseases, several others occur occasionally but are of minor importance: powdery mildew ( Erysiphe graminis f. sp. tritici ), dwarf smut ( Tilletia contraversa ), flag smut ( Urocystis tritici ), take-all ( Gaeumannomyces graminis ) and a wheat mosaic virus (recently observed in a province of Central Anatolia). 相似文献
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Mechanisms of inhibition of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici by fluorescent pseudomonads 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
The take-all fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici reduced the weight of wheat plants grown in tubes containing sterilized sand and plant nutrient solution. Fluorescent pseudomonads, when added to the tubes, inhibited the take-all fungus and increased plant weight. Iron (as FeNaEDTA) had no effect on the inhibition of the fungus by the pseudomonads. Some of the pseudomonads produced a compound in the wheat rhizosphere with a UV absorption peak at 365 nm, but the inhibition of G. graminis by pseudomonads was not proportional to the UV absorbance of rhizosphere extracts. A yellow crystalline compound, absorbing at 365 nm, was extracted from broth cultures and shown to be toxic to G. graminis under acid conditions. This compound is considered to be phenazine-I-carboxylic acid. 相似文献
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内生细菌B3-7 的运动性参与其在小麦根系的内生定殖和对小麦全蚀病的生物防治 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
蜡样芽孢杆菌(Bacillus cereus)B3-7 是一株对于小麦全蚀病具有有效生防作用的小麦内生细菌。为了研究B3-7 在小麦根内的定殖机制,本研究将含有转座子TnYLB-1 和温度敏感型复制子的质粒pMarB 转化B3-7 菌株,高温处理后TnYLB-1 插入细菌基因组中,构建转座子插入突变体库。通过筛选,获得1 株在小麦根内定殖能力显著降低的突变体B3-7-458。利用反向PCR 方法分离转座子插入位点的侧翼序列并分析其特征,发现转座子插入导致细菌鞭毛运动性相关基因mota 失活,同时发现mota 失活菌株对于小麦全蚀病的生防能力降低。通过构建互补载体对突变基因mota 进行互补分析,发现互补菌株的运动性、在小麦根系内部的定殖能力以及对于小麦全蚀病的生防能力得以恢复。本研究证明了生防菌蜡样芽孢杆菌B3-7 的mota 基因参与该菌株在小麦根系的内生定殖,也参与了该菌株对于小麦全蚀病的生物防治。 相似文献
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Studies were conducted to assess the importance of soil-borne pathogens as impediments to the production of direct-drilled wheat following Kentucky bluegrass in rotation. Bluegrass sods were collected as cores from commercial seed fields in October (after open-field burning) and in December and March (after exposure to normal freezing and thawing), treated with glyphosate after a 2- to 3-week period of green-up in the glasshouse, and then planted to wheat 21 days later. Wheat seedlings in the 3- to 4-leaf stage were stunted and spindly in either burned or nonburned sods collected in October, but grew significantly better in burned than nonburned sods collected in December and March. Fumigation (methyl bromide), simulated tillage, and application of metalaxyl as a drench, singly or as combined treatments, improved the growth of wheat in nonburned sods. Growth of wheat in nontreated burned sods collected after frost had penetrated the upper portions was equivalent to that in fumigated sods. Experimental freezing at −20°C for up to 96 h, of burned and nonburned sods collected in October, followed by thawing also improved the growth of wheat subsequently sown directly into these sods. The stunted and spindly seedlings had roots girdled and severed by lesions typical of Rhizoctonia root rot. Isolates of Rhizoctonia cerealis were recovered from these roots and caused poor seedling emergence and stunted root and shoot growth of both wheat and bluegrass. The results suggest that both R. cerealis and Pythium spp. are potentially important soil-borne pathogens of wheat when following Kentucky bluegrass in rotation and that burning done routinely to improve the yield of bluegrass seed can also reduce the potential for damage caused by Rhizoctonia and Pythium root rots of wheat seeded directly into bluegrass sod. 相似文献
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我国小麦产区间病害发生与损失差异比较研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
为系统全面地掌握我国各产区小麦病害的发生情况,本文重点分析了我国小麦五大产区(华东麦区、华中麦区、华北麦区、西北麦区和西南麦区)小麦锈病、赤霉病、白粉病、纹枯病、黑穗病、根腐病和全蚀病的发生及防控情况。结果表明：我国小麦病害发生危害具有区域性特点,华东和华中麦区小麦纹枯病和赤霉病发病面积较大,且造成产量损失占比远超其余三大产区;华北麦区以白粉病发生最重;西北和西南麦区锈病和白粉病发生最重。我国小麦病害防治效果显著,华东和华中麦区赤霉病、纹枯病的年均挽回损失率均在80%以上;华北麦区年均挽回损失率最高的病害是白粉病(84.43%);西北和西南麦区对锈病年均挽回损失率分别为78.20%和85.26%;黑穗病、根腐病和全蚀病挽回损失率较低。 相似文献
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More than 20000 wheat plants, derived from callus culture of immature wheat embryos were assessed for reaction to the take-all fungus ( Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici ) using a test-tube assay. Lines with less root and shoot blackening and more remaining green tissue than parental lines were identified in the SC3 generation. However these lines had more root and shoot blackening and less remaining green tissue in subsequent generations. The changes in reaction to the fungus may therefore have been epigenetic. The potential of this tissue culture derived material for breeding take-all resistant wheats is discussed. 相似文献
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The take-all fungus, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici , was highly sensitive to fluquinconazole ( in-vitro EC50 0·016–0·018 mg L−1 ), a fungicide developed for use as a seed treatment to control take-all, and to prochloraz (EC50 0·006 mg L−1 ). Fungi of other genera that were commonly isolated from cereal roots were sensitive in varying degrees to prochloraz but were relatively insensitive (e.g. Fusarium culmorum , EC50 > 20 mg L−1 ) or slightly sensitive (e.g. Epicoccum purpurascens , EC50 0·514 mg L−1 ) to fluquinconazole. Gaeumannomyces graminis var. graminis and G. cylindrosporus , weak parasites that can protect roots against take-all, and an unnamed Phialophora sp., all closely related to the take-all fungus, were highly or moderately sensitive to fluquinconazole. Alternaria infectoria and E. purpurascens were most consistently effective in suppressing development of take-all on pot-grown wheat plants dual-inoculated with G. graminis var. tritici and the nonpathogen. Take-all was decreased more on dual-inoculated wheat plants grown from seed treated with fluquinconazole or fluquinconazole plus prochloraz than when only an antagonistic fungus ( A. infectoria , E. purpurascens , Fusarium culmorum or Idriella bolleyi ) or a seed treatment was applied. These fungi were less effective in combination with seed treatments on barley. Gaeumannomyces graminis var. graminis and G. cylindrosporus , tested on wheat, suppressed take-all only in the absence of fungicides. It is suggested that the performance of seed treatment containing fluquinconazole against take-all may in some circumstances be enhanced by its partial specificity for the take-all fungus. 相似文献
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The superior growth of wheat following Brassica crops compared to that following non- Brassica crops may be due to the suppression of soilborne fungal pathogens by volatile isothiocyanates (ITCs) released in the soil during hydrolysis of glucosinolates contained in Brassica tissues. We investigated the effects of volatile compounds released from the root, shoot and seed meal tissues of canola ( Brassica napus ) and Indian mustard ( Brassica juncea ) on the mycelial growth of five soilborne pathogens of cereals— Gaeumannomyces graminis var . tritici, Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium graminearum, Pythium irregulare and Bipolaris sorokiniana. Three isolates of each species, originally collected from the roots of wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) and barley grass ( Hordeum leporinum ) in southern Australia, were exposed to volatiles released in vitro when sterile water was added to freeze-dried Brassica tissues. The root and shoot tissues of both Brassica species were more suppressive at flowering than maturity and mustard tissues were generally more suppressive than canola. The degree of fungal suppression by the various Brassica tissues was related to the concentration and type of isothiocyanates released, which varied with Brassica species, tissue age and tissue type. There were significant differences in the sensitivity of the fungal species and among isolates of each species. Gaeumannomyces and Rhizoctonia were generally the most sensitive to the volatiles released, Pythium and Bipolaris the least. The results indicate that the effectiveness of fungal suppression by Brassica crops will depend upon the species, age and type of Brassica tissue, which influence the type and concentration of isothiocyanates evolved, and the sensitivity of the pathogen. 相似文献
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Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici was recovered from 63% of 731 winter wheat plants collected randomly from six sites where wheat had been grown in monoculture for the previous 7–22 years. Typical take-all was not evident at the time the plants were collected. The fungus was isolated by a baiting method without regard to the presence of take-all on the plants. Isolates from fields under short-term wheat cultivation (3 years or less after a break crop) were obtained by plating directly from infected roots of plants with typical take-all. Virulent isolates comprised 89 and 99% of those collected from long- and short-term wheat cultivation respectively. There was also only a slight difference in the proportions of virulent isolates among monoascosporic subcultures from the two groups of isolates. There was thus little evidence that, during prolonged wheat cultivation, declining virulence in the population of G. graminis var. tritici could account for the absence of take-all. 相似文献
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河北省小麦全蚀病菌变种类型鉴定 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
2007年从河北省的保定、石家庄、邢台小麦主产区采集小麦全蚀病株,共分离得到62个菌株,对其所属的变种类型进行了形态学和分子生物学鉴定。根据形态、培养性状、生理特性以及在小麦、高粱、水稻、玉米、燕麦等禾本科作物上的致病性,初步认定测定的所有菌株均为禾顶囊壳小麦变种(Gaeumannomyces graminisvar.tritici)。进一步采用4个变种的特异性引物进行PCR扩增,在所有菌株中扩增出870bp的条带,该片段为禾顶囊壳小麦变种特异性片段,证实所测菌株均为禾顶囊壳小麦变种。 相似文献
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Yang MM Mavrodi DV Mavrodi OV Bonsall RF Parejko JA Paulitz TC Thomashow LS Yang HT Weller DM Guo JH 《Phytopathology》2011,101(12):1481-1491
Take-all disease of wheat caused by the soilborne fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici is one of the most important root diseases of wheat worldwide. Bacteria were isolated from winter wheat from irrigated and rainfed fields in Hebei and Jiangsu provinces in China, respectively. Samples from rhizosphere soil, roots, stems, and leaves were plated onto King's medium B agar and 553 isolates were selected. On the basis of in vitro tests, 105 isolates (19% of the total) inhibited G. graminis var. tritici and all were identified as Pseudomonas spp. by amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis. Based on biocontrol assays, 13 strains were selected for further analysis. All of them aggressively colonized the rhizosphere of wheat and suppressed take-all. Of the 13 strains, 3 (HC9-07, HC13-07, and JC14-07, all stem endophytes) had genes for the biosynthesis of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA) but none had genes for the production of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol, pyoluteorin, or pyrrolnitrin. High-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of 2-day-old cultures confirmed that HC9-07, HC13-07, and JC14-07 produced PCA but no other phenazines were detected. HPLC quantitative time-of-flight 2 mass-spectrometry analysis of extracts from roots of spring wheat colonized by HC9-07, HC13-07, or Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79 demonstrated that all three strains produced PCA in the rhizosphere. Loss of PCA production by strain HC9-07 resulted in a loss of biocontrol activity. Analysis of DNA sequences within the key phenazine biosynthesis gene phzF and of 16S rDNA indicated that strains HC9-07, HC13-07, and JC14-07 were similar to the well-described PCA producer P. fluorescens 2-79. This is the first report of 2-79-like bacteria being isolated from Asia. 相似文献
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Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection - The soilborne fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici (Ggt) causing take-all in wheat, barley and rye is regarded as the most important disease on... 相似文献
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R. James Cook 《European journal of plant pathology / European Foundation for Plant Pathology》2007,119(3):255-264
In view of the inconsistent performance of single or mixtures of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains formulated
for commercial use, and the high cost of regulatory approval for either a proprietary strain intended for disease control
or a crop plant transformed to express a disease-suppressive or other growth-promoting PGPR trait, management of resident
PGPR with the cropping system remains the most practical and affordable strategy available for use of these beneficial rhizosphere
microorganisms in agriculture. A cropping system is defined as the integration of management (agricultural) practices and
plant genotypes (species and varieties) to produce crops for particular end-uses and environmental benefits. The build-up
in response to monoculture cereals of specific genotypes of Pseudomonas fluorescens with ability to inhibit Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici by production of 2,4-diacetylphoroglucinol (DAPG), accounting for take-all decline in the US Pacific Northwest, illustrates
what is possible but apparently not unique globally. Other crops or cropping systems enrich for populations of the same or
other genotypes of DAPG-producing P. fluorescens or, possibly and logically, genotypes with ability to produce one or more of the five other antibiotic or antibiotic-like
substances inhibitory to other soilborne plant pathogens. In the U.S Pacific Northwest, maintenance of threshold populations
of resident PGPR inhibitory to G. graminis var. tritici is the centerpiece of an integrated system used by growers to augment take-all decline while also limiting damage caused
by pythium and rhizoctonia root rot and fusarium root and crown rot in the direct-seed (no-till) cereal-intensive cropping
systems while growing varieties of these cereals (winter and spring wheat, barley and triticale) fully susceptible to all
four root diseases. 相似文献
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Cold tolerant isolates of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. graminis ( Ggg ) and Phialophora sp. (lobed hyphopodia), which produced at least comparable growth rates at 5°C to those of pathogenic G. graminis var. tritici ( Ggt ), were shown to control take-all disease in wheat effectively in 2 years of field experiments in New South Wales, Australia. The addition of oat inoculum of these fungi at the rate of 60 kg/ha to the seeding furrow significantly ( P ≤ 0.05) reduced disease and increased grain yields by 33–45% compared to the Ggt alone treatment. The use of 30 kg/ha of oat inoculum also significantly ( P ≤ 0.05) reduced disease and increased grain yields by 21–44%. These high levels of take-all control were obtained consistently from four field experiments on three different soil types with different pHs. A treatment inoculated with Ggg alone showed no disease symptoms and produced grain yields similar to that of untreated wheat. This fungus is, therefore, non-pathogenic to wheat. At high rates of inoculation of Ggg and Phialophora sp. (lobed hyphopodia), 65–80% of tillering wheat plants (GS 32) had root systems colonized by these fungi. In contrast, two Pseudomonas spp. and an isolate each of Ggg and Phialophora sp. (lobed hyphopodia), which did not grow at 5°C, were ineffective in controlling take-all. Take-all assessments during heading (GS 61-83) were highly correlated ( R 2 =0.6047, P ≤0.0005) with the relative yield increase or decrease of inoculated treatments compared to the Ggt alone treatment. The use of a Ggg isolate (90/3B) and a Phialophora sp. (lobed hyphopodia) isolate (KY) for take-all control has been patented. These fungi are being developed for commercial use. 相似文献
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The global regulator GacA of Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 is required for suppression of root diseases in dicotyledons but not in Gramineae 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Pseudomonas fluorescens strain CHA0 suppresses various plant diseases caused by soil-borne fungi. The pseudomonad produces the antimicrobial metabolites 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (Phl), pyoluteorin (Plt) and hydrogen cyanide, which are important for disease suppression, as well as the siderophores pyoverdine (Pvd), salicylic acid (Sal) and pyochelin (Pch). In the current work, a derivative of CHA0 with a mutation in the global regulator gene gacA (GacA− ), which is unable to produce Phl, Plt and HCN, failed to protect the dicotyledonous plants cress and cucumber against damping-off caused by Pythium ultimum . In contrast, the GacA− mutant could still protect the Gramineae wheat and maize against damping-off mediated by the same strain of P. ultimum , and wheat against take-all caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis . However, the GacA− mutant overproduced Pch and Pvd. To gain more insight into disease protection afforded by the GacA− mutant, a GacA− Pvd− double mutant (strain CHA496) was constructed by gene replacement. Strain CHA496 overproduced Pch and Sal compared with CHA0 and protected wheat against P. ultimum and G. graminis , whereas cress and cucumber were not protected. Addition of FeCl3 repressed Pch and Sal production by strain CHA496 in vitro and impaired the protection of wheat in soil microcosms. In conclusion, a functional gacA gene was necessary for the protection of dicotyledons against root diseases, but not for that of Gramineae. Results indicated also that Pch and/or Sal were involved in the ability of the GacA− Pvd− mutant of CHA0 to suppress root diseases in Gramineae. 相似文献
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A region comprising the 5.8S RNA gene and internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 of the take-all patch fungus, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. avenae , was cloned and sequenced using primers from the flanking 17S and 26S ribosomal RNA genes. The sequenced region showed 99% similarity between the two G. graminis isolates, and 70–80% similarity between these two isolates and several other species of fungi. From the sequence, oligonucleotide primers were selected which permitted specific amplification of DNA from G. graminis vars. avenae and graminis using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The assay could detect DNA of G. graminis strains obtained from a wide variety of hosts, but did not amplify DNA from many other fungi, including the important turf-grass root pathogens Magnaporthe poae and Leptosphaeria korrae. The primers also did not amplify DNA from G. graminis var. tritici, M. rhizophila or Phialophora graminicola. The PCR-based assay shows promise as a diagnostic tool for the take-all pathogen in turf-grass pathology. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT Previously, the zoosporicidal activity and control of Pythium root rot of flower bulbs by Pseudomonas fluorescens SS101 was attributed, in part, to the production of the cyclic lipopeptide surfactant massetolide A. The capacity of strain SS101 and its surfactant-deficient massA mutant 10.24 to suppress populations and root infection by complex Pythium spp. communities resident in orchard soils was assessed on apple and wheat seedlings and on apple rootstocks. Both strains initially became established in soil and persisted in the rhizosphere at similar population densities; however, massA mutant 10.24 typically was detected at higher populations in the wheat rhizosphere and soil at the end of each experiment. Both strains effectively suppressed resident Pythium populations to an equivalent level in the presence or absence of plant roots, and ultimately suppressed Pythium root infection to the same degree on all host plants. When split-root plant assays were employed, neither strain suppressed Pythium spp. infection of the component of the root system physically separated from the bacterium, suggesting that induced systemic resistance did not play a role in Pythium control. Strain SS101 only marginally suppressed in vitro growth of Pythium spp. and growth was not inhibited in the presence of mutant 10.24. When incorporated into the growth medium, the cyclic lipopeptide massetolide A significantly slowed the rate of hyphal expansion for all Pythium spp. examined. Differences in sensitivity were observed among species, with Pythium heterothallicum, P. rostratum, and P. ultimum var. ultimum exhibiting significantly greater tolerance. Pythium spp. populations indigenous to the two soils employed were composed primarily of P. irregulare, P. sylvaticum, and P. ultimum var. ultimum. These Pythium spp. either do not or rarely produce zoospores, which could account for the observation that both SS101 and mutant 10.24 were equally effective in disease control. Collectively, the results showed that (i) Pseudomonas fluorescens SS101 is very effective in controlling diverse Pythium populations on different crops grown in different soils and (ii) production of the cyclic lipopeptide massetolide A does not play a significant role in disease suppression. Other, as yet undefined mechanisms appear to play a significant role in the interaction between P. fluorescens SS101 and soilborne Pythium spp. communities. 相似文献
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Grass species were grown in plots, as pure stands or mixed with wheat, after a sequence of wheat crops in which take-all ( Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici ) had developed. Annual brome grasses maintained take-all inoculum in the soil as well as wheat (grown as a continuous sequence), and much better than cultivated species with a perennial habit. Take-all developed more in wheat grown after Anisantha sterilis (barren brome) or Bromus secalinus (rye brome), with or without wheat, than in continuous grass-free wheat in the same year, where take-all decline was apparently occurring. It was equally or more severe, however, in wheat grown after Lolium perenne (rye-grass) or Festuca arundinacea (tall fescue), despite these species having left the least inoculum in the soil. It was most severe in plots where these two grasses had been grown as mixtures with wheat. It is postulated that the presence of these grasses inhibited the development of take-all-suppressive microbiota that had developed in the grass-free wheat crops. The effects of the grasses appeared to be temporary, as amounts of take-all in a second subsequent winter wheat test crop were similar after all treatments. These results have important implications for take-all risk in wheat and, perhaps, other cereal crops grown after grass weed-infested cereals or after set-aside or similar 1-year covers containing weeds or sown grasses, especially in combination with cereal volunteers. They also indicate that grasses might be used experimentally in wheat crop sequences for investigating the mechanisms of suppression of, and conduciveness to, take-all. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT Strains of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. that produce the antibiotic 2,4-diacetylphoroglucinol (2,4-DAPG) are among the most effective rhizobacteria controlling diseases caused by soilborne pathogens. The genotypic diversity that exists among 2,4-DAPG producers can be exploited to improve rhizosphere competence and biocontrol activity. Knowing that D-genotype 2,4-DAPG-producing strains are enriched in some take-all decline soils and that P. fluorescens Q8r1-96, a representative D-genotype strain, as defined by whole-cell repetitive sequence-based polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR) with the BOXA1R primer, is a superior colonizer of wheat roots, we analyzed whether the exceptional rhizosphere competence of strain Q8r1-96 on wheat is characteristic of other D-genotype isolates. The rhizosphere population densities of four D-genotype strains and a K-genotype strain introduced individually into the soil were significantly greater than the densities of four strains belonging to other genotypes (A, B, and L) and remained above log 6.8 CFU/g of root over a 30-week cycling experiment in which wheat was grown for 10 successive cycles of 3 weeks each. We also explored the competitive interactions between strains of different genotypes inhabiting the same soil or rhizosphere when coinoculated into the soil. Strain Q8r1-96 became dominant in the rhizosphere and in nonrhizosphere soil during a 15-week cycling experiment when mixed in a 1:1 ratio with either strain Pf-5 (A genotype), Q2-87 (B genotype), or 1M1-96 (L genotype). Furthermore, the use of the de Wit replacement series demonstrated a competitive disadvantage for strain Q2-87 or strong antagonism by strain Q8r1-96 against Q2-87 in the wheat rhizosphere. Amplified rDNA restriction analysis and sequence analysis of 16S rDNA showed that species of Arthrobacter, Chryseobacterium, Flavobacterium, Massilia, Microbacterium, and Ralstonia also were enriched in culturable populations from the rhizosphere of wheat at the end of a 30-week cycling experiment in the presence of 2,4-DAPG producers. Identifying the interactions among 2,4-DAPG producers and with other indigenous bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere will help to elucidate the variability in biocontrol efficacy of introduced 2,4-DAPG producers and fluctuations in the robustness of take-all suppressive soils. 相似文献