Estoppey Aislinn, Vallat-Michel Armelle, Chain Patrick S, Bindschedler Saskia, Junier Pilar
Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Neuchâtel Platform of Analytical Chemistry, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
J Fungi (Basel). 2025 Mar 2;11(3):191. doi: 10.3390/jof11030191.
The phytopathogenic fungus has a wide host range and causes significant economic losses in crops worldwide. This pathogen uses oxalic acid as a virulence factor; for this reason, the degradation of this organic acid by oxalotrophic bacteria has been proposed as a biological control approach. However, previous studies on the potential role of oxalotrophy in biocontrol did not investigate the differential effect of oxalic acid consumption and the subsequent pH alkalinisation on fungal growth. In this study, confrontation experiments on different media using a wild-type (WT) strain of and an oxalate-deficient mutant (strain Δ) with the soil oxalotrophic bacteria and showed the combined effect of media composition on oxalic acid production, pH, and fungal growth control. Oxalotrophic bacteria were able to control only in the medium in which oxalic acid was produced. However, the deficient Δ mutant was also controlled, indicating that the consumption of oxalic acid is not the sole mechanism of biocontrol. WT acidified the medium when inoculated alone, while for both fungi, the pH of the medium changed from neutral to alkaline in the presence of bacteria. Therefore, medium alkalinisation independent of oxalotrophy contributes to fungal growth control.
这种植物病原真菌寄主范围广泛,在全球范围内给农作物造成了巨大的经济损失。该病原菌将草酸用作一种致病因子;因此,草酸营养细菌对这种有机酸的降解已被提议作为一种生物防治方法。然而,先前关于草酸营养在生物防治中潜在作用的研究并未调查草酸消耗以及随后的pH值碱化对真菌生长的不同影响。在本研究中,使用[某种真菌]的野生型(WT)菌株和草酸缺陷型突变体(Δ菌株)与土壤草酸营养细菌[细菌名称1]和[细菌名称2]在不同培养基上进行对峙实验,结果表明培养基成分对草酸产生、pH值和真菌生长控制具有综合影响。草酸营养细菌仅在产生草酸的培养基中能够控制[真菌名称]。然而,缺陷型Δ突变体也受到了控制,这表明草酸的消耗并非生物防治的唯一机制。单独接种时,野生型[真菌名称]会使培养基酸化,而对于两种真菌而言,在有细菌存在的情况下,培养基的pH值从中性变为碱性。因此,与草酸营养无关的培养基碱化有助于控制真菌生长。