Saturday, April 5, 2014

SOME FACTS BACILLUS SP IN AGRICULTURE

The use of biological agents in agriculture deserves to be developed following the massive recall that the balance of the ecosystem functions . Bacteria reported to suppress the growth of pathogens in the soil naturally , some genus Agrobacterium lot of attention , namely , Bacillus , and Pseudomonas ( Hasanuddin , 2003)
Bacillus sp . is a group of gram-positive bacteria are often used as biological control root diseases . Members of this genus have advantages , because the bacteria form spores that are easily stored , has a long life durability , and relatively easy inoculated into the soil . Bacillus sp . has been shown to have potential as biological control is good , for example against pathogenic bacteria such as R. solanacearum ( Soesanto , 2008) .
Bacillus sp . can produce phytohormones potentially to develop sustainable agricultural systems . Phytohormones produced soil bacteria can affect plant growth , either directly or indirectly . Fitohormon indirectly inhibit the activity of bacterial pathogens in plants , whereas the direct effect is to increase the phytohormones plant 's growth and can act as a facilitator in the absorption of some nutrients from the environment ( Greenlite , 2009) .
Several species of Bacillus sp . which produce antibiotics can be used as a biological agent . The type of antibiotic that produced , among others, in the form of iturin , surfactin , fengicin , polymyxin , difficidin , subtiline , and mycobacilin ( Todar , 2005) .
Function of Bacillus spp . ( such as Bacillus subtillis ) , among others, can control the disease on potato and potato tuber yield increase up to 160 % . Bacillus spp . can control the disease and lincat on tobacco bacterial wilt disease in tomato seeds caused by Ralstonia solanacearum in tobacco plants
Baker et al in Hasanuddin ( 2003) states when the sterile filtration of cultures of Bacillus subtilis was applied three times a week to control rust diseases on field pea crops markedly better than mancozeb fungicide applications once a week .

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