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Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria

Dissertation (MSc (Agric))--University of Pretoria, 2018.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/70555 Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria Labuschagne, Nico SEANCONRAD07@GMAIL.COM Sikora, Richard Fourie, Hendrika Conrad, Robert UCTD Dissertation (MSc (Agric))--University of Pretoria, 2018. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are bacteria that colonize the rhizosphere and/or roots in the presence of other soil microflora and have growth promotion activity and/or biocontrol activity. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria can be integrated into modern agriculture. The main objective of the current study was to identify strains of PGPR for use as biocontrol agents against Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White, 1919) Chitwood, 1949 on soybean and to study the mechanisms of control involved. A seedling bioassay was used to screen PGPR (from the PGPR collection of the University of Pretoria) for biocontrol of M. incognita on soybean seedlings. Lysinibacillus sphaericus strain T19, Paenibacillus alvei strain T22 and Pseudomonas fluorescens strain N04 reduced the number of M. incognita galls per plant by 30 % or more during two seedling bioassays. The selected strains were tested in greenhouse trials. Strain T19 proved to be the most consistent-performing biocontrol agent among the selected strains. The strain (applied as a Perlite powder seed treatment) reduced the number of M. incognita egg masses on roots of soybean plants significantly. Strains T19 and T22, applied as Perlite powder seed treatments, increased dry shoot mass and leaf area of soybean plants in experiments to test plant growth enhancement. The ability of selected rhizobacteria to produce nematode-suppressive metabolites was assessed with in vitro assays. Strains T19, T22 and N04 appear to produce metabolites (in broth culture) that reduce motility as well as hatching of M. incognita second-stage juveniles. A split-root assay was attempted. Strain T22 induced resistance against M. incognita in soybean in one of two split-root experiments. Lysinibacillus sphaericus strain T19 may be useful for control of M. incognita on soybean within an integrated pest management system. Strains T19 and T22 may also be useful as biofertilisers and could allow application of fertilisers at reduced rates. Plant Production and Soil Science MSc (Agric) Unrestricted 2019-07-08T09:46:51Z 2019-07-08T09:46:51Z 2019/04/17 2018 Dissertation Conrad, R 2018, Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, MSc (Agric) Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70555> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70555 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
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Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
title Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
title_full Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
title_fullStr Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
title_full_unstemmed Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
title_short Biological control of Meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) by means of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
title_sort biological control of meloidogyne incognita race 2 on soybean glycine max l merrill by means of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria
topic UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70555