Abstract:
Three strains were selected as the
Bacillus agtagonists against tobacco brown spot disease from 93 strains stored in our lab, the strain K
11 showed the highest percentage inhibition of radial growth (PIRG). The PIRG was 63.64% by the dual culture while 67.44% in culture filtrate tests. According to the physiological and biochemical characteristics, the strain K
11 was identified as
Bacillus subtilis. Based on the single factor experiments and orthogonal experiments for K
11, an optimum fermentation medium for biomass production in flasks composed of glucose 20.0 g/L, soybean meal 30.0 g/L, K
2HPO
4·3H
2O 1.0 g/L, and MgSO
4·7H
2O 0.1 g/L. Under the optimum fermentation conditions, the highest biomass yield was 1.28×10
10 CFU/mL, which was 6.5 times of the initial KMB medium, and the sporulation rate reached as much as 95%.