Behavior of Pythium torulosum Zoospores During Their Interaction with Tobacco Roots and Bacillus cereus |
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Authors: | Hongzhong Shang Jianjun Chen Jo Handelsman Robert M Goodman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, 1630 Linden Drive, Russell Laboratories, Room 687A, Madison, WI 53706, USA , US |
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Abstract: | Bacillus cereus UW85 suppresses seedling damping-off diseases caused by Oomycetes and produces antibiotics that inhibit development of Oomycetes
in culture. The goal of this study was to determine how UW85 and its antibiotics affected the behavior of an Oomycete, Pythium torulosum, in its interaction with plant roots. We studied tobacco seedlings inoculated with zoospores of P. torulosum and UW85 culture, culture filtrate, washed cells, antibiotics (zwittermicin A or kanosamine), purified from cultures of UW85,
and UW030, a mutant of UW85 that does not suppress disease and does not produce the antibiotics. Microscopic observation revealed
that all of the treatments inhibited zoospore activity around roots and encystment on roots. Treatment with UW85 culture,
culture filtrate, zwittermicin A, or kanosamine delayed cyst germination and the elongation rate of germ tubes, whereas treatment
with UW030 or washed UW85 cells did not. In an in vitro seedling bioassay of disease suppression, the antibiotics, zwittermicin
A and kanosamine, suppressed disease singly or together, although UW85 culture suppressed disease more effectively than did
the antibiotics. The results show that B. cereus cultures affect zoospore behavior in the presence of roots, and B. cereus-produced antibiotics, zwittermicin A and kanosamine, contribute to disease suppression and inhibition of germ tube elongation
in the presence of the plant root.
Received: 9 September 1998 / Accepted: 13 October 1998 |
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