Root-colonization ability of antagonistic Streptomyces griseoviridis

Root-colonization ability of Streptomyces griseoviridis was tested on turnip rape (Brassica rapa subsp. oleifera) and carrot (Daucus carota) by the plate test and the sand-tube method. In the plate test, colonized root length of total root length was highly significantly greater for turnip rape roots (72%) from those for carrot roots (1%). In the sand-tube method, root-colonization ability was examined in nonsterile soil, and no water was added after sowing. Seeds were treated with spores of S. griseoviridis or the biofungicide Mycostop. Roots were cut into 2-cm segments, and the root segments and the rhizosphere soil were studied separately. Root-colonization frequencies and population densities of the microbe in the rhizosphere soil indicated that S. griseoviridis successfully colonized turnip rape but weakly colonized carrot. Root-colonization of turnip rape is accounted for as proliferation of S. griseoviridis in the rhizosphere of turnip rape seedlings and is not due to the movement of microbe through the rhizosphere by water infiltration.

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