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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2016, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (8): 164-171.DOI: 10.11686/cyxb2015583

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Isolation and biological characteristics of the biological control fungi BC-1 for Echinochloa crusgalli

LI Jian, LI Mei*, GAO Xing-Xiang, FANG Feng, DONG Lian-Hong   

  1. Institute of Plant Protection, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Shandong Key Laboratory of Plant Virology, Jinan 250100, China
  • Received:2015-12-31 Revised:2016-03-25 Online:2016-08-20 Published:2016-08-20

Abstract: There has been increasing effort in the research and development of biological herbicides because of their low toxicity. Myrothecium roridum, strain BC-1 was isolated from diseased Echinochloa crusgalli leaves in order to obtain a low toxicity and effective biological herbicide. The BC-1 strain was identified using its culture characters and 16S rDNA sequence analysis. The optimal mycelium growth media were PDA and PSA medium. The optimal culture temperature is 25-28 ℃, and optimal initial pH of culture media was 6-7. Darkness was beneficial for mycelium growth. The optimal mycelium growth carbon source is maltose, and the best nitrogen source was NH4NO3. Additionally, biocontrol testing showed that the E. crusgalli were all infested with BC-1 21 days after innoculation, and fresh weight inhibition was 93.7%. However, the fresh weight inhibition effects of BC-1 on Digitaria sanguinalis, Setaria viridis, Descuminia sophia and Amaranthus retroflexus were only 33.7%, 28.3%, -3.2% and 16.8% respectively. Crop safety analysis showed that the strain BC-1 was safe to Zea mays, Triticum aestivum and Oryza sativa. This study suggests that strain BC-1 has potential to be developed into an effective microbial herbicide with economic and social benefits.