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Colonization of GFPtagged endophytic Bacillus subtilis Y10 in Chinese cabbage.

DU Fang1, HE Peng-fei1, WU Yi-xi2,3, CHEN Zhuo-jun1, YANG Jing1, HE Yue-qiu2,3**   

  1. (1Faculty of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China; 2National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Screening and Application of Microbial Strains, Kunming 650207, China; 3Faculty of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China)
  • Online:2015-07-10 Published:2015-07-10

Abstract:

Endophytic Bacillus subtilis Y10 isolated from Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa) can control effectively cruciferous vegetable clubroot disease. To understand its clubrootcontrol mechanisms, GFP plasmids were transformed into Y10 cells for fluorescencetagging by natural transformation. The plasmid stability, growth curve and plate antagonism bioassay of GFPtagged strains were determined, and the results showed only plasmid pHT01P43GFPmut3a could be maintained stably and its introduction had no significant negative influence on Y10 growth and antagonistic performance. Pot bioassay experiment with different cultivation matrixes indicated that there was no significant difference in clubrootcontrol efficiency between Y10P43GFPmut3a and its wild type. Recovery and observation by confocal laser scanning microscope confirmed that, 9 days after inoculation, tagged strain could colonize the root, stem and leaf of Chinese cabbage, and the colonization density still kept at 103-104 cfu·g-1 tissues in 44 days after inoculation. All the results suggest that the clubrootcontrol of Y10 be intimately associated with efficient colonization in Chinese cabbage host.
 

Key words: sensitivity analysis, Hurst coefficient, Bartels statistics, variability, Lancang River.