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MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 251, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2021.126815
Keywords
Bacillus subtilis; Pangenome comparison; Fengycin; Alternaria leaf spot; Swollen hyphae
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan Grants [MOST-105-2313-B-005-017-MY3, MOST-105-2911-I-005-301]
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Bacillus subtilis PMB102 suppresses Alternaria leaf spot by producing antifungal metabolites, with fengycin playing a key role in inhibiting the vegetative growth of A. brassicicola ABA-31.
Bacillus subtilis is ubiquitous and capable of producing various metabolites, which make the bacterium a good candidate as a biocontrol agent for managing plant diseases. In this study, a phyllosphere bacterium B. subtilis PMB102 isolated from tomato leaf was found to inhibit the growth of Alternaria brassicicola ABA-31 on PDA and suppress Alternaria leaf spot on Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa). The genome of PMB102 (Accession no. CP047645) was completely sequenced by Nanopore and Illumina technology to generate a circular chromosome of 4,103,088 bp encoding several gene clusters for synthesizing bioactive compounds. PMB102 and the other B. subtilis strains from different sources were compared in pangenome analysis to identify a suite of conserved genes involved in biocontrol and habitat adaptation. Two predicted gene products, surfactin and fengycin, were extracted from PMB102 culture filtrates and verified by LC-MS/MS. The antifungal activity of fengycin was tested on A. brassicicola ABA-31 in bioautography to inhibit hyphae growth, and in co-culturing assays to elicit the formation of swollen hyphae. Our data revealed that B. subtilis PMB102 suppresses Alternaria leaf spot by the production of antifungal metabolites, and fengycin plays an important role to inhibit the vegetative growth of A. brassicicola ABA-31.
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