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Chinese Journal of Biological Control ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 1045-1053.DOI: 10.16409/j.cnki.2095-039x.2024.02.034

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Effect of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens YN-J3 on Spore Germination and Appressorium Formation of Colletotrichum cereale

ZHANG Baolong1,2, ZHENG Chengzhong3, XU Zhenpeng3, QUAN wei1,2, YANG Jifeng4, DONG Baozhu1,2, ZHOU Hongyou1,2   

  1. 1. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China;
    2. Biological Creation and Resource Utilization Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Higher Education Institutions, Hohhot 010018, China;
    3. Wulanchabu Institute of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, Wulanchabu 012001, China;
    4. Xing'an League Institute of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Science, Wulanhaote 137400, China
  • Received:2023-10-13 Published:2024-10-11

Abstract: Oat anthracnose is a severe crop disease caused by Colletotrichum cereale, which can damage the aboveground parts of plants. In this study, the antifungal mechanism of B. amyloliquefaciens YN-J3 against C. cereale was investigated. Conidia of C. cereale were treated with strain YN-J3 metabolic fluid, bacterial suspension, metabolites, and cultured plate-to-plate, and the conidia germination rates and appressoria formation rates were determined. The results indicated that the abnormal appressoria formed by the conidia of C. cereale increased in size and lacked melanin deposition when treated directly with the metabolic liquid of the strain YN-J3. Transmission electron microscopy results suggested that the cell wall of the abnormal appressoria of C. cereale was loose, the plasma membrane collapsed, the organelles disintegrated, and the cytoplasm vacuolated. The EC50 values of strain YN-J3 suspension against conidia germination and appressoria formation of C. cereale were 1.14× 105 and 1.91× 104 cfu/mL, respectively. The bacterial suspension of the strain YN-J3 and the conidia of C. cereale were separated by 0.22 μm filter membrane, and the proportion of conidia germination and appressoria formation of C. cereale decreased significantly. The proportion of abnormal appressoria formation at 108 bacteria concentration for 30 h was (15.67± 2.08) %. The ethyl acetate extract of the cell metabolite was able to completely inhibit conidial germination and appressorium formation. When conidia were cultured plate-to-plate with strain YN-J3 for 30 h, they did not germinate. These results indicated that the metabolites produced by strain YN-J3 effectively inhibited the germination of conidia and the formation of appressoria in C. cereale, leading to the development of abnormal appressoria. Furthermore, strain YN-J3 was found to inhibit the formation of infection structures in C. cereale.

Key words: Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, metabolite, spore germination, appressorium formation

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