Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (4): 194-202. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195444

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Isolation and Identification of Black Rot Pathogen on Bitter Gourd and Screening of Bacillus spp.for Hyper-Effective Biocontrol

CHANG Yanhua, LIU Huafeng, LIU Xiaohong, XIN Yuanyi, WEN Guoqin, SONG Bo, ZHANG Tingfu   

  1. College of Life Science,China West Normal University,Nanchong 637009,China
  • Received:2024-09-21 Published:2025-08-28

Abstract:

The purport was to identify the black rot pathogen of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) and screen highly effective biocontrol Bacillus spp.,so as to provide a theoretical basis for scientific prevention and control of black rot of bitter gourd.The pathogen of black rot was isolated and purified by tissue separation method from postharvest bitter gourd,and the pathogenicity of isolated pathogens was further verified according to Koch's rule.The pathogen was identified by observing morphological characteristics combined with molecular phylogenetic analysis.The representative strain NCKG8.2-4 was used as the test pathogen,and antagonistic experiments were conducted to compare the effects of Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii TEB-1,Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SWB-2,Bacillus licheniformis SWB-1,Bacillus velezensis SB023 and Bacillus polymyxa SWP-1 on black rot pathogen of bitter gourd.The inhibition effect of the best antagonistic strains on test pathogen was further evaluated by the gradient inhibition experiment of the cell-free supernatant (CFS) from its fermentation broth.The results showed that NCKG8.2-4 strain was pathogen causing black rot of bitter gourd,and the ITS,β-Tubulin and GAPDH fragments sequences were 100% consistent with Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum.And it was respectively clustered with S.cucurbitacearum on a branch by phylogenetic analysis based on β-Tubulin or GAPDH sequences.The results of antagonistic experiment showed that the inhibitory area of SB023 against colony growth of black rot pathogen NCKG8.2-4 was the largest.At the same time,the inhibitory effect increased with the Mcrease of SB023 CFS content,and the inhibitory rate of 9% CFS for NCKG8.2-4 growth was up to 93.7% and the EC50 of SB023 CFS was 3.48% to NCKG8.2-4 on PDA.The pathogen of black rot of bitter gourd was identified as S.cucurbitacearum,and Bacillus velezensis SB023 had a high inhibitory effect on the pathogen NCKG8.2-4.

Key words: Momordica charantia L., Black rot, Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum, Bacillus spp., Biocontrol

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CHANG Yanhua, LIU Huafeng, LIU Xiaohong, XIN Yuanyi, WEN Guoqin, SONG Bo, ZHANG Tingfu. Isolation and Identification of Black Rot Pathogen on Bitter Gourd and Screening of Bacillus spp.for Hyper-Effective Biocontrol[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2025, 40(4): 194-202. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20195444.

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