Rhizospheric Actinomycetes Revealed Antifungal and Plant-Growth-Promoting Activities under Controlled Environment

has large habitats and can be isolated from terrestrial soil, rhizospheres of plant roots, and marine sediments. produce several bioactive secondary metabolites with antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties. In this study, some strains were isolated from the rhizosphere zone of four diffe...

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Published inPlants (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 14; p. 1872
Main Authors Elshafie, Hazem S, Camele, Ippolito
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 18.07.2022
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Summary:has large habitats and can be isolated from terrestrial soil, rhizospheres of plant roots, and marine sediments. produce several bioactive secondary metabolites with antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties. In this study, some strains were isolated from the rhizosphere zone of four different plant species: rosemary, acacia, strawberry, and olive. The antagonistic activity of all isolates was screened in vitro against and . Isolates with the strongest bioactivity potential were selected and molecularly identified as sp., , and . The growth-promoting activity of the selected isolates was in vivo evaluated on tomato plants and for disease control against . The results demonstrated that all bacterized plants with the studied isolates were able to promote the tomato seedlings' growth, showing high values of ecophysiological parameters. In particular, the bacterized seedlings with sp. and showed low disease incidence of infection (0.3% and 0.2%, respectively), whereas those bacterized with showed a moderate disease incidence (7.6%) compared with the positive control (36.8%). In addition, the ability of the studied to produce extracellular hydrolytic enzymes was verified. The results showed that was able to produce chitinase, glucanase, and protease, whereas sp. and produced amylase and pectinase at high and moderate levels, respectively. This study highlights the value of the studied isolates in providing bioactive metabolites and extracellular hydrolytic enzymes, indicating their potential application as fungal-biocontrol agents.
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ISSN:2223-7747
2223-7747
DOI:10.3390/plants11141872