Abstract
Streptomycetes are promising candidates for the biological control of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in wheat. Studies involving the use of streptomycetes as biological control agents (BCAs) have been limited to the application when the wheat plant is developed, close to the infection on the spike during flowering. Here, we tested the effects of seed treatment with the Streptomyces sp. DEF39 spores before sowing on FHB symptoms’ development. The seed treatment protected the plant from infection by Fusarium graminearum by 49% (p = 0.04). We traced Streptomyces sp. DEF39 in plant organs using strain-specific primers here developed, showing that the streptomycete acts as an endophyte, colonizing the plant tissues up to the spike as well as the roots. This work suggests that it is possible to use a streptomycete as a seed coating BCA, able to partially protect wheat from FHB disease.
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Claim · model-written summary
Seed treatment with Streptomyces sp. DEF39 spores protected wheat from Fusarium graminearum infection by 49%.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- seed treatment with the Streptomyces sp. DEF39 spores before sowinge2
- Interactor
- Fusarium graminearum
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Fusarium graminearume1pathogen - Second interactor
- Streptomyces sp. DEF39e2biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- infection by Fusarium graminearume1
- Direction
- protectede1
- Value
- 49%e1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
t0“Wheat Seed Coating”
e1“The seed treatment protected the plant from infection by Fusarium graminearum by 49% (p = 0.04)”
e2“seed treatment with the Streptomyces sp. DEF39 spores before sowing”
Claim · model-written summary
Streptomyces sp. DEF39 colonised wheat tissues as an endophyte up to the spike and roots.
- Taxon
- WheatTriticum aestivumt0
- Organ / stage
- spikee3
- Interactor
- streptomycetee3symbiont
- Outcome
- colonizing the plant tissues up to the spike as well as the rootse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Wheat Seed Coating”
e3“showing that the streptomycete acts as an endophyte, colonizing the plant tissues up to the spike as well as the roots”
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