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Morphological and Molecular Diagnosis of Bio-fungus Isolate Penicillium Commune DSKZ and its Laboratory Use in Biological Control of Pathogenic Fungus Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum (Lib) DeBary Causing White Mold on Eggplant
Kadhim Z.K. Al-Karaawi , Dhia S. Al-Waily
Abstract
The selected fungus isolate Penicillium was diagnosed according to morphological and Molecular characteristics
when cultured on PDA culture media. The results of DNA extraction from spp. Penicillium fungus that had subjected
to a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) showed the possibility of duplicate PCR-amplified products with an expected
size of 550 nitrogenous base pairs by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and in the presence of pair of the Forward
primer (ITS1) and Reverse primer (ITS4). This is considered the first recording for this isolate in Iraq, and it was
registered in the gene bank by a name of DSKZ, and its code in the gene bank was MT065753.1, which was registered
in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Some laboratory tests were conducted on this
bio-fungus, where the treatment of antagonism between P.commune fungus and the pathogenic fungus
S.sclerotiorum. gave the highest percentage of inhibition, which amounted to 86.1, with highly significant differences
compared to the control treatment, which amounted to 0.00%. The concentrations of 50% and 60% in the non-heattreated fungal extracts (non-sterile) in terms of colony diameter and the percentage of inhibition for pathogenic
fungus have excelled on the rest of the concentrations, which gave the highest values amounted to 0.00, 100%,
respectively, for both concentrations. As for the treatment of the thermally treated fungus extracts (sterilized with an
autoclave device at a temperature of 121 °C and a pressure of 1.5 kg.cm-1 for 20 min), the 60% concentration has
excelled on the rest of the concentrations by giving it the highest values in terms of colony diameter and the
percentage of inhibition, which amounted to 1.012 cm and 88.8 %, respectively, compared to the control treatment
in which the colony diameter and percentage of inhibition amounted to 9.00 cm and 0.00%, respectively. P.commune
extracts concentrations also caused an increase in the percentage of germination for eggplant seeds at a probability
level of 0.05.
Keywords
Penicillium Commune, DSKZ, Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, White Mold, Eggplant
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