Ultrastructure and germinability ofVerticillium dahliaemicrosclerotia parasitized byTalaromyces flavuson agar medium and in treated soil
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Biocontrol Science and Technology
- Vol. 2 (1), 69-78
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09583159209355220
Abstract
The interactions between microsclerotia (ms) of the fungal plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae and the mycoparasite Talaromyces flavus were followed in soil and on agar medium. Germinability of ms, which had been incubated for 14 days in soil treated with 0.5% of a T. flavus ‐ wheat bran preparation, decreased from 84% to 17%, as compared with 81% and 74% in untreated soil and in soil treated with a sterilized biocontrol preparation respectively. Germinability of ms which had been buried in treated soil for 4 days decreased to 70%, all ms being parasitized by T. flavus. Upon transfer of the ms to untreated soil for 10 more days, germinability decreased further to 20%, indicating that T. flavus continued to parasitize sclerotia in the untreated soil. Scanning electron micrographs showed heavy fungal colonization and typical T. flavus conidia on the surface of the ms buried in the treated soil, but not in control soils. Transmission electron micrographs of ms incubated with T. flavus on agar revealed parsitism involving invasion of some host cells by means of small penetration pegs; the host cell walls were mainly lysed at their site of contact with the parasite hyphal tips. Further colonization of the ms cells occurred simultaneously with the degradation of the invaded host cell contents, rather than the cell walls. Mycoparasitism of V. dahliae ms by T. flavus hyphae may be involved in the biological control of verticillium wilt disease.Keywords
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