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Chinese Journal of Biological Control ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 397-406.DOI: 10.16409/j.cnki.2095-039x.2023.02.021

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Isolation and Identification of Antagonistic Fungus against Albizzia Julibrissin Wilt and Pot Control Experiment

CAI Yue, TANG Xiaofei, HU Ting, GE Chunmei, RUAN Banfeng   

  1. College of Biology, Food and Environment, Hefei University, Hefei 230601, China
  • Received:2022-09-20 Published:2023-04-13

Abstract: Albizzia julibrissin wilt is one of the major factors that trigger the weakness and death of A. julibrissin, and there are no efficient approaches for preventing this disease at present. In this study, plate confrontation and toxic medium method have been used to isolate potential antagonists from the rhizosphere soil of A. Julibrissin. The antagonistic fungus was identified based on morphological characteristics and combined ITS-TEF1 phylogenetic analysis, and the pot experiment was conducted to verify the efficacy of the antagonistic strains against A. Julibrissin wilt. The result showed that 11 potential antagonists were collected from rhizosphere soil, and 5-2 has the highest inhibitory effect. After six days of confrontation, the inhibition rate of 5-2 on Fusarium oxysporum and Fusarium solani were 76.88% and 84.08%, respectively, and the two pathogens can hardly grow on the plate containing 6.67% concentration of 5-2 spore suspension (1.0×107 spore/mL). Microscopic observation showed that 5-2 could entangle the mycelium of A. Julibrissin wilt pathogen and parasitic growth. Pot experiment showed that strain 5-2 had good antagonistic effect on F. oxysporum and F. solani with the control efficacies of 78.26% and 57.89%, respectively. Combined with morphological characteristics and ITS-TEF1 phylogenetic analysis, strain 5-2 was identified as Trichoderma koningii. These results indicate that T. koningii (strain no. 5-2) has positive effect on preventing and treating Fusarium wilt, and could be used as a candidate strain for biological control of A. Julibrissin wilt disease.

Key words: Albizzia julibrissin wilt, antagonistic fungus, Trichoderma koningii, control efficacy

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