HNCS-1: a biocontrol bacterium against tea plant diseases.

As a biocontrol bacteria, has been the subject of extensive research for agricultural applications. Antibacterial peptides (AMPs) are the main antibacterial products of . This study isolated a strain of HNCS-1 from tea garden soil, and the strain has an antagonistic effect against five types of pathogens of tea diseases, namely sp., and . To determine the genetic characteristics implicated in the biocontrol mechanism, the genome sequence of the HNCS-1 strain was obtained and analyzed further, and the data are deposited in the GenBank repository (No. CP128411). Comparative genomics analyses revealed that the HNCS-1 strain and 17 public share a core genome composed of 3,742 genes. Interestingly, only one non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene cluster annotated as edeine is present in the core genome. And UHPLC-MS/MS detection results showd that edeine B and edeine A were the principal antibacterial peptides in the HNCS-1 strain. This study proves that edeine is the main antibacterial peptide of , and provides a new strategy for the identification of antibacterial products from other biocontrol bacteria.