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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF ROOT‐INFECTING BASIDIOMYCETES BY SPECIES OF BACILLUS AND CLOSTRIDIUM
Author(s) -
TAYLOR J. B.,
GUY ESMÉ M.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1981.tb01708.x
Subject(s) - fungus , biology , clostridium , bacillus (shape) , bioassay , botany , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , ecology , genetics
SUMMARY The effect of flooding was studied on eight basidiomycete fungi growing on pieces of wood which were buried and flooded for 12 weeks. None of the fungi was re‐isolated from the flooded site, and the cause of the phenomenon was investigated, using a bioassay with Peniophora sacrata as the test fungus. When four Bacillus spp. and three Clostridium spp. from this site were added together to McCartney bottles containing soil and P. sacrata , and then flooded, the fungus was killed, but not when single bacterial species were used. This potential was present in 24 of 32 soils in the southwest Pacific.