An auxin-producing bacterium Yangsong-1 was isolated from a button mushroom bed in Chung cheongnam-do. The strain Yangsong-1 was classified as a novel strain of Arthrobacter enclensis based on a chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analysis. The isolated A. enclensis Yangsong-1 was confirmed to produce indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), which is one of the auxin hormones. When the concentration of IAA was assessed by HPLC quantity analysis, the maximum concentration of IAA, 152.903 mg L-1, was detected from the culture broth incubated in R2A medium containing 0.2% L-tryptophan for 48 h at 35oC. A negative relationship between IAA production and pH was estimated to show that the increase in IAA caused pH acidification of the culture. The effect of the supplement on L-tryptophan, a known precursor of IAA production, appeared to be at maximal production at 0.2% concentration and was rather reduced at concentration above 0.4%. To investigate the growth-promoting effects on the crops, the culture broth of A. enclensis Yangsong-1 was placed in water cultures and seed pots of mung beans and lettuce. In consequence, the adventitious root induction and root growth of mung beans and lettuce were 1.5 and 1.9 times higher, respectively, than those of the control.

충청남도 부여군 석성면 양송이 재배 농가에서 양송이 수확 후 배지로부터 토양을 채취하여 auxin(IAA) 생성능이 뛰어난 세균 Jopap-1 균주를 분리하였다. TLC 및 HPLC 분석을 통해 분리균이 생성한 IAA 농도를 확인한 결과, 0.1% L-tryptophan를 함유한 pH 7.0의 R2A broth 배지에 35℃, 48시간 배양 시 최대 생성농도는 96.05 mg L−1이었다. 생리적 특성 및 계통학적특성 분석을 통해 분리균은 Gram 음성 간균인 Klebsiella michiganensis Jopap-1로 동정되었다. 배양조건별 IAA의 생산능 비교 시, IAA 농도의 증가가 배양액의 pH 산성화에 기인함으로서 IAA 생성량과 pH 변화에는 부의 상관성이 있는 것으로 관측되었다. IAA 생성을 위한 전구물질로 알려진 L-tryptophan의 첨가효과는 0.1% 첨가 시 균의 생육 및 IAA 생성량이 최대이었으며, 0.2% 이상 고농도 첨가 배지에서는 오히려 IAA의 생성이 저해되었다. 또한 분리균에 의한 식물 생육 촉진 효과를 조사하기 위하여 수경재배 및 pot 재배를 통한 녹두발근 생검법과 상추발근 생검법을 수행한 결과, K. michiganensis Jopap-1의 배양액 접종 시 녹두발근 생검법에서는 대조구에 비해 발근수와 뿌리길이에서 약 2.1배의 뿌리 신장 효과를 보였고, 상추발근 생검법에서는 대조구에 비해 뿌리길이와 무게에서 약 1.8배의 뿌리신장효과를 보였다.

An auxin-producing bacteria (A-1) was isolated from soils of Oyster mushroom farmhouse in Daejeon city, South Korea. The strain A-1 was classified as a novel strain of Ochrobactrum anthropi based on a chemotaxanomic and phylogenetic analyses. The isolate was confirmed to produce indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), one of auxin hormones, by TLC and HPLC analyses. The maximum concentration of IAA, 5.6 mg L-1 was detected from the culture broth of O. anthropi A-1 incubated for 24 h at 35oC in R2A broth containing 0.1% L-tryptophan. To investigate the growth-promoting effects to the crops, the culture broth of O. anthropi A-1 was inoculated to water cultures and seed pots of mung bean as well as lettuce. In consequence, the adventitious root induction and root growth of mung bean and lettuce were 2.7 and 1.4 times higher than those of the non-inoculated, respectively.

본 시험은 병원성 사상균에 길항작용이 있고 식물의 생육을 촉진하는 세균을 이용하여 연작 및 비연 작토양에 있어서 옥수수(Zea may L.)의 생산성을 증대시킬 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 수행되었다. 옥수수는 전남대학교 농과대학 부속동물사육장내 vinyl house에서 자연광 상태에서 p o t ( 30 × 50 c m ) 로 재배한 다음 파종 후 50일 및 90일에 수확하여 건물중을 조사하였으며, 시험토양은 연작 및 비연작지의 양토와 버미큘라이트를 1:1 로 혼합하여 사용하였다. 본 시험에 이용된 세균은 목초근권에서 직접 분리한 Bacillus subtilis 였다. 연작 및 비연작 토양 모두 B. subtilis 처리구에서 옥수수의 건물중이 B. subtilis 무처리구보다 그리고 병원성 사상균 처리구보다 증가되었다. 그리고 비연작 토양에서 생장한 옥수수의 건물중은 연작토양에서 보다 증가하였다. 옥수수의 생장에 있어서 B. subtilis 접종효과는 연작토양보다 비연작토양에서 좋게 나타났다. 그러나 연작 및 비연작토양 모두 병원성사상균을 접종함으로써 옥수수의 건물중은 현저하게 감소되었다.

Drought stress is a major agricultural limitation to crop productivity worldwide, especially by which leafy vegetables, plant leaves eaten as vegetable, could be more lethal. The study was carried out to know the effect of drought tolerance plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) on water stress of kale seedlings. A total of 146 morphologically distinct bacterial colonies were isolated from bulk soil and rhizosphere soil of leafy vegetables and screened for plant growth promoting microbioassay in greenhouse. Out of them the isolate SB19 significantly promoted the growth of kale seedlings in increasement of about 42% of plant height (14.1 ㎝), 148% of leaf area (19.0 ㎠) and 138% of shoot fresh weight (1662.5 ㎎) attained by the bacterially treated plants compared to distilled water treated control (9.9 ㎝, 7.7 ㎠, 698.8 ㎎). Shoot water content of SB19 treated kale seedlings (1393.8 ㎎) was also increased about 152% compared with control (552.5 ㎎). The SB19 isolated from bulk soil of kale plant in Iksan, Korea, was identified as species of Bacillus based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis. We evaluated the effect of drought tolerance by the Bacillus sp. SB19 on kale seedlings at 7th and 14th days following the onset of the water stress and watering was only at 7th day in the middle of test. In the survey of 7th and 14th day, there were mitigation effect of drought stress in kale seedlings treated with 106 and 107 cell mL-1 of SB19 compared to distilled water treated control. Especially, there were more effective mitigation of drought damage in kale seedlings treated with 107 cell mL-1 than 106 cell mL-1. Further, although drought injury of bacterially treated kale seedlings were not improved at 14th day compared with 7th day, drought injury of 107 cell mL-1 of SB19 treated kale seedlings were not happen rapidly but developed over a longer period of time than 106 cell mL-1 of SB19 or control. The diffidence of results might be caused by the concentration of bacterial suspension. This study suggests that beneficial plant-microbe interaction could be a important role of enhancement of water availability and also provide a good method for improving quality of leafy vegetables under water stress conditions.

Endophytes are microorganisms that live in the internal tissues of plants without harming the host plants. In this symbiotic relationship, the host plants provide nutrients and shelter to the endophytes, in turn, endophytes can promote the growth of host plants and act as a biological control agents against plant pathogens. Plant-microbe interactions like this are noted for natural methods for sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation. However, in spite of the infinite potential, there are only a few reports on the endophytes present in ginseng. In this study, we isolated and identified the endophytes from Panax ginseng seeds and evaluated the biological activities (IAA production ability, nitrogen fixation ability, phosphate solubilization capacity, siderophore production ability, and antifungal activities) of the endophyte isolates. Eight different endophytes were identified by 16S rRNA sequencing. Most of the endophytes have antibiotic and plant growth promoting (PGP) activities. Particularly, PgSEB5-37E have the highest antibiotic activity, both PgSEB5-37B and PgSEB5-37H have high PGP traits such as an abilities to produce IAA, solubilize phosphate and fix nitrogen. These results indicated that the endophytes from P. ginseng seeds may have applicable value to many industries. In order to use the isolated endophytes, quantitative analysis and field tests are needed to be performed.