| Title: | Biofumigation on Post-Harvest Diseases of Fruits Using a New Volatile-Producing Fungus of Ceratocystis fimbriata |
| Author(s): | Li Q; Wu L; Hao J; Luo L; Cao Y; Li J; |
| Address: | "Beijing Engineering Research Center of Seed and Plant Health (BERC-SPH) / Beijing Key Laboratory of Seed Disease Testing and Control (BKL-SDTC), Beijing, P. R. China. Laboratory of Fruit Quality Biology, The State Agriculture Ministry Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Growth, Development and Quality Improvement, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou, P. R. China. School of Food and Agriculture, The University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States of America" |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0132009 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1932-6203 (Electronic) 1932-6203 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "A variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by Ceratocystis fimbriata have strong bioactivity against a wide range of fungi, bacteria and oomycetes. Mycelial growth, conidial production, and spore germination of fungi and oomycetes were significantly inhibited after exposure to cultures of C. fimbriata, and colony formation of bacteria was also inhibited. Two post-harvest diseases, peach brown rot caused by Monilinia fructicola and citrus green mold caused by Penicillium digitatum, were controlled during a 4-day storage by enclosing wound-inoculated fruits with 10 standard diameter Petri plate cultures of C. fimbriata in a 15 L box. The fruits were freshly inoculated at onset of storage and the cultures of C. fimbriata were 6 days old. Percentage of control was 92 and 97%, respectively. After exposure to C. fimbriata VOCs, severely misshapen hyphae and conidia of these two post-harvest pathogens were observed by scanning electron microscopy, and their pathogenicity was lost or greatly reduced" |
| Keywords: | "Ascomycota/*chemistry Fruit/*microbiology Oomycetes/*growth & development Penicillium/*growth & development Pest Control, Biological/*methods Plant Diseases/microbiology/prevention & control Prunus persica/*microbiology *Volatile Organic Compounds/chemist;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineLi, Qian Wu, Lei Hao, Jianjun Luo, Laixin Cao, Yongsong Li, Jianqiang eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2015/07/07 PLoS One. 2015 Jul 6; 10(7):e0132009. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132009. eCollection 2015" |
