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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2001, p. 1851-1864, Vol. 67, No. 4
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale and
CSMT-CNR, 10125 Torino, Italy1;
Phytopathology Group, Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH-8092 Zürich,
Switzerland2; and UMR CNRS Ecologie
Microbienne, Université Claude Bernard (Lyon 1), F-69622
Villeurbanne cedex, France3
Received 24 July 2000/Accepted 29 December 2000
Little is known about the effects of Pseudomonas
biocontrol inoculants on nontarget rhizosphere fungi. This issue was
addressed using the biocontrol agent Pseudomonas
fluorescens CHA0-Rif, which produces the antimicrobial
polyketides 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (Phl) and pyoluteorin (Plt) and
protects cucumber from several fungal pathogens, including
Pythium spp., as well as the genetically modified
derivative CHA0-Rif(pME3424). Strain CHA0-Rif(pME3424) overproduces Phl
and Plt and displays improved biocontrol efficacy compared with
CHA0-Rif. Cucumber was grown repeatedly in the same soil, which was
left uninoculated, was inoculated with CHA0-Rif or CHA0-Rif(pME3424),
or was treated with the fungicide metalaxyl (Ridomil). Treatments were
applied to soil at the start of each 32-day-long cucumber growth cycle,
and their effects on the diversity of the rhizosphere populations of
culturable fungi were assessed at the end of the first and fifth
cycles. Over 11,000 colonies were studied and assigned to 105 fungal
species (plus several sterile morphotypes). The most frequently
isolated fungal species (mainly belonging to the genera
Paecilomyces, Phialocephala, Fusarium, Gliocladium, Penicillium,
Mortierella, Verticillium, Trichoderma, Staphylotrichum, Coniothyrium,
Cylindrocarpon, Myrothecium, and Monocillium) were
common in the four treatments, and no fungal species was totally
suppressed or found exclusively following one particular treatment.
However, in each of the two growth cycles studied, significant
differences were found between treatments (e.g., between the control
and the other treatments and/or between the two inoculation treatments)
using discriminant analysis. Despite these differences in the
composition and/or relative abundance of species in the fungal
community, treatments had no effect on species diversity indices, and
species abundance distributions fit the truncated lognormal function in
most cases. In addition, the impact of treatments at the 32-day mark of
either growth cycle was smaller than the effect of growing cucumber
repeatedly in the same soil.
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1851-1864.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Impact of Biocontrol Pseudomonas
fluorescens CHA0 and a Genetically Modified Derivative on the
Diversity of Culturable Fungi in the Cucumber Rhizosphere
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di
Biologia Vegetale and CSMT-CNR, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy. Phone: 39 011 6707446 47. Fax: 39 011 6707459. E-mail: girlanda{at}bioveg.unito.it.
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