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Antifungal compound, methyl hippurate from Bacillus velezensis CE 100 and its inhibitory effect on growth of Botrytis cinerea

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Botrytis cinerea, the causal agent of gray mold is one of the major devastating fungal pathogens that occurs in strawberry cultivation and leads to massive losses. Due to the rapid emergence of resistant strains in recent years, an ecofriendly disease management strategy needs to be developed to control this aggressive pathogen. Bacillus velezensis CE 100 exhibited strong antagonistic activity with 53.05% against B. cinerea by dual culture method. In the present study, 50% of culture filtrate supplemented into PDA medium absolutely inhibited mycelial growth of B. cinerea whereas the highest concentration (960 mg/L) of different crude extracts including ethyl acetate, chloroform, and n-butanol crude extracts of B. velezensis CE 100, strongly inhibited mycelial growth of B. cinerea with the highest inhibition of 79.26%, 70.21% and 69.59% respectively, resulting in severe damage to hyphal structures with bulging and swellings. Hence, the antifungal compound responsible was progressively separated from ethyl acetate crude extract using medium pressure liquid chromatography. The purified compound was identified as methyl hippurate by nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry. The inhibitory effect of methyl hippurate on both spore germination and mycelial growth of B. cinerea was revealed by its dose-dependent pattern. The spore germination rate was completely restricted at a concentration of 3 mg/mL of methyl hippurate whereas no mycelial growth was observed in agar medium supplemented with 4 mg/mL and 6 mg/mL of methyl hippurate by poisoned food method. Microscopic imaging revealed that the morphologies of spores were severely altered by long-time exposure to methyl hippurate at concentrations of 1 mg/mL, 2 mg/mL and 3 mg/mL and hyphae of B. cinerea were severely deformed by exposure to methyl hippurate at concentrations of 2 mg/mL, 4 mg/mL and 6 mg/mL. No significant inhibition on tomato seed germination was observed in treatments with methyl hippurate (2 mg/mL) for both 6 h and 12 h soaking period as compared to the controls. Based on these results, B. velezensis CE 100 could be considered a potential agent for development of environmentally friendly disease control strategies as a consequence of the synergetic interactions of diverse crude metabolites and methyl hippurate.

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This research was financially supported by Chonnam National University (Grant Number: 2018-3347).

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    Chaw Ei Htwe Maung, Hyung Gwon Lee & Kil Yong Kim

  2. Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

    Jeong-Yong Cho

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Maung, C.E.H., Lee, H.G., Cho, JY. et al. Antifungal compound, methyl hippurate from Bacillus velezensis CE 100 and its inhibitory effect on growth of Botrytis cinerea. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 37, 159 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-021-03046-x

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