Mechanism of biological control of preemergence damping-off of pea by seed treatment with Trichoderma spp.
Mechanism of biological control of preemergence damping-off of pea by seed treatment with Trichoderma spp.
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木霉种子处理豌豆苗前猝倒病的生物防治机制。
DOI:
10.1094/phyto-76-720
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发表时间:
1986
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影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
R. Baker
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作者:
R. Lifshitz;M. Windham;R. Baker
Application of conidia of isolates of Trichoderma harzianum or T. koningii to pea seed reduced the incidence of preemergence damping-off of peas induced by a Pythium sp. Germination of sporangia of the Pythium sp. or chlamydospores of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp., cucumerinum in the spermosphere of peas treated with the isolates of Trichoderma was comparable to that of nontreated controls. Addition of asparagine or glucose to the seed did not nullify biological control of preemergence damping-off, suggesting that competition for nutrients (nitrogen and/or carbon) was not involved. Also, several factors precluded mycoparasitic interactions as likely candidates in antagonism. Such interactions were observed infrequently and occurred 24 hr or more after mycelial contact in dual culture. Germination of conidia of Trichoderma spp. required> 10-14 hr of incubation at 26 C, whereas sporangia of the Pythium sp. germinated within 90 min. The seed coat was colonized by Pythium sp. in 10 hr, and the embryo was infected 24-48 hr after inoculation. Time restraints and lack of extensive mycoparasitism of the Pythium sp. suggest that this mechanism of antagonism was not operative in biological control. However, the antagonists produced a factor that resulted in plasmolysis of hyphal tip cells of the Pythium sp. before contact of mycelium in dual culture. Culture filtrates of isolates of Trichoderma spp. inhibited growth of the pathogen in vitro but not of Rhizoctonia solani or T. harzianum. The operation of this toxic factor in the spermosphere provides a likely explanation for the phenomena observed with biological control.Treatment of pea seeds with isolates of Trichoderma spp. has effectively controlled Pythium damping-off (20, 30, 43). Many investigators (6, 10-13, 16, 20, 21, 29, 32, 36) have also reported that seed or soil treatment with isolates of Trichoderma spp. reduced damping-off induced by Rhizoctonia solani Kühn. These reports suggested that a considerable increment of control of R. solani was achieved through mycoparasitism. Isolates of Trichoderma spp. produced cell-wall-degrading enzymes that provided a means of penetration into the hyphae of R. solani (6, 7). In addition, mycoparasitism appears to be responsible for the substantial decrease in the inoculum density of R. solani with a corresponding increase in population density of Trichoderma spp. observed during monoculture of certain hosts (29). Despite the similarity in disease expression in preemergence damping-off induced by R. solani and by Pythium spp.(14), we found it difficult to generate suppressiveness in soil to the latter pathogen when isolates of Trichoderma spp. were mixed into conducive soil; only seed treatment was successful in control (20, 31). In contrast, suppressiveness to R. solani was induced by both seed and soil treatment (6, 20, 28). The objective of this research was to determine the biological control mechanisms associated with seed treatment with isolates of Trichoderma spp. for reduction of damping-off induced by a Pythium sp.