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PLANT DISEASE
Volume 96, Issue 5, Pages 712-717Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-05-11-0441
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- Michigan Potato Industry Commission
- Michigan State University
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A field in East Lansing, MI, showed a decline of potato common scab compared with an adjacent potato field. To confirm that the decline was due to biological factors, the soil was assayed. In the greenhouse, putative common-scab-suppressive soil (SS) was either treated with various temperatures or mixed with autoclaved SS at various ratios. Pathogenic Streptomyces scabies was incorporated into the treated soil at 10(6) CFU/cm(3) of soil, followed by planting of either potato or radish. Disease severity was negatively correlated with the percentage of SS in the mixture and positively correlated with temperature above 60 degrees C. The soil was screened for four groups of potential antagonists (general bacteria, streptomycetes, fluorescent pseudomonads, and bacilli) pairing in culture with S. scabies. The frequency of antagonistic bacteria in SS was higher than common-scab-conducive soil (CS) in all four groups but only pseudomonads and streptomycetes were significantly higher. The population of pathogenic Streptomyces spp. in the rhizosphere of CS was significantly higher than SS. Dilution plating of CS and SS samples showed no clear trends or differences in populations of total fungi, total bacteria, streptomycetes, fluorescent pseudomonads, and bacilli but terminal restriction fragment polymorphism analysis revealed two distinct microbial communities were present in SS and CS.
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