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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2022, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (1): 87-100.

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Identification of a Tea Rhizosphere Bacterium and its Biocontrol of Tea Anthracnose Disease

ZHU Yongshan1, LUO Xiaoxin1, LIANG Haoran4, CHEN Zhengtong4, LIU Cheng3, CAO Kai3, LIU Shaoqun2, ZHOU Erxun1, SHU Canwei1, ZHENG Peng2,*   

  1. 1. College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University/Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control/Integrative Microbiology Research Center, Guangzhou 510642, China;
    2. College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China;
    3. Cross-strait Agricultural Development Research Institute, Zhuhai 519080, China;
    4. College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
  • Received:2021-09-03 Revised:2021-10-30 Online:2022-02-15 Published:2022-02-18

Abstract: Tea anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) is one of the most important fungal diseases of Camellia sinensis worldwide, which causes serious damage to tea growth and production. The control of tea anthracnose is mainly dependent on chemical fungicides. To promote green prevention and control in tea plantation, development of biocontrol agents is critically important. A bacterium named JT68 isolated from tea rhizosphere was identified based on physiological and biochemical analysis and PCR. The inhibition effects of fermented broth JT68 on confrontation culture, mycelia growth and spores germination were determined. The effect of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of JT68 was tested and the components were identified by GC-MS. The control effect of JT68 was determined using detached leaf method. The results of this study shows that the strain JT68 was identified as Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. Plate confrontation shows that the inhibition rate of fermentation broth of JT68 against C. gloeosporioides was 80.94%. Co-culture shows that the inhibition rate of spore germination of C. gloeosporioides was 99.18%, and the mycelia of pathogen shrank and formed chlamydospores. The VOCs of JT68 could inhibit 50.73% mycelia growth of C. gloeosporioides. Ketones such as 2-Nonanone and 2-Undecanone were revealed as major components in VOC through GC-MS analysis. Leaf detached inoculation shows that the relative inhibition rates of the original fermentation broth, 10-fold, and 100-fold dilutions were 83.20%, 79.70% and 72.66%, respectively. Furthermore, our study found that JT68 strongly inhibited the growth of Magnaporthe grisea, Fusarium oxysporum, C. capsici, C. higginsianum, Verticillium dahlia and Sclerotium rolfsii with the inhibition rates of 70.0%- 93.2%. Our study provided a biocontrol agent B. amyloliquefaciens from tea rhizosphere, which showed superior biocontrol effect against C. gloeosporioides. This strain had been applied to develop biofertilizer and widely used in the field, which would reduce the use of chemical fungicide and implement prevention and control in tea plantation.

Key words: tea anthracnose, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, inhibition effect, biological control

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