Musrat Zahan Surovy, Sudipta Dutta, Nur Uddin Mahmud, Dipali Rani Gupta, Tarin Farhana, Sanjay Kumar Paul, Joe Win, Christopher Dunlap, Ricardo Oliva, Mahfuzur Rahman, Andrew G Sharpe, Tofazzal Islam
Crop production often faces challenges from plant diseases, and biological control emerges as an effective, environmentally friendly, cost-effective, and sustainable alternative to chemical control. Wheat blast disease caused by fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum (MoT), is a potential catastrophic threat to global food security. This study aimed to identify potential bacterial isolates from rice and wheat seeds with inhibitory effects against MoT. In dual culture and seedling assays, three bacterial isolates (BTS-3, BTS-4, and BTLK6A) demonstrated effective suppression of MoT growth and reduced wheat blast severity when artificially inoculated at the seedling stage...
2024: Frontiers in Microbiology