Pseudomonas aurantiaca PB-St2 - a bio-fungicide and a bio-fertilizer for the future
Sugarcane is an important cash crop grown over one million hectare in Pakistan. Although production in the country has increased over time, the increase in productivity per unit area has been very low. Red rot disease caused by the fungus Colletotrichum falcatum is one of the production constraints. It is also responsible for the deterioration of sugarcane cultivars in other countries such as USA, Australia, Taiwan, Thailand, India and Bangladesh. As plant protection chemicals are currently not available for this disease, one key to overcome this situation is the use of bio-control agents to contain this disease. A new strain PB-St2, of Pseudomonas aurantiaca has been isolated from the stem of a local sugarcane variety. Our studies showed that it produces antifungal compounds which are active against isolates of Colletotrichum falcatum, Fusarium oxysporium and Fusarium lateritium.
Samina Mehnaz Harald Gross
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan Institute for Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, Bonn University, Bonn 53115, Germany
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
79-88
2011-08-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）