会议专题

Plant-specific selection of drought-resistant biological control agents against soil-borne pathogens

Desert agriculture is a strongly growing field of land use. However, emerging problems with soil-borne pathogens limit the yield. Biological control agents (BCAs), which are able to suppress soil-borne pathogens, are promising candidates for plant protection but for desert application specific, drought-resistant strains are required. Here we report a stepwise selection procedure of BCAs from one of the most prominent organic desert farms SEKEM in Egypt. In a first step, we characterized the bacterial and fungal communities of the target habitat-the rhizospheres and endorhiza of medical plants Matricaria chamomilla L., Calendula officinalis L. and Solarium distichum Schumach. & Thonn.). The bacterial communities were highly different-for the plant species as well as for both investigated microenvironments.

desert fanning medical plants antagonists

Martina Koberl Elshahat M. Ramadan Kornelia Smalla Gabriele Berg

Graz University of Technology, Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Austria SEKEM and Heliopolis University, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt Julius Kühn- Institute - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology a

国际会议

The 2nd Asian PGPR Conference(第二届亚洲植物促生根际细菌会议)

北京

英文

199-206

2011-08-21(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)