Using of green fluorescent reporter gene (GFP) to monitor the fate of Fusarium moniliforme mycoparasitized by Trichoderma viride

摘要

Fusarium moniliforme Sheld.is a rice pathogenic fungus and causes the disease called Bakanae,which has increasingly damaged rice production in the recent years. Trichoderma spp. has been one of the most widely used biological control agent of plant disease. By geneticaly labelling F. moniliforme with the GFP reporter gene, we have studied the antagonistic action of Trichoderma viride against this pathogenic fungus. The binary GFP reporter vector pCHF3-35S∷GFP was constructed, which carries the gfp gene driven by the CaMv35S promoter. The vector was transformed into F. moniliforme via Agrobacterium.The mycoparasitism of T.viride against F.moniliforme was tested by dual culture and examined with fluorescence microscope. The result of the dual culture showed that the T.viride maintained a strong competitive ability against F. moniliforme , by growing on the top of the pathogen colony. Fluorescence microscope observation indicated that attacked hyphae of F. moniliform were distorted, swollen or broken. This indicate an enzymatic by T.viride to degrade the host cell walls and used the cell contents as a source of nutrients (Fig 1) .