• The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2016

Bacterial fruit blotch (BFB) caused by Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli is defective disease to watermelon cultivated areas. To control of BFB, we investigated control efficiency to use commercial antibacterial pesticides. Growth inhibition zone on medium were formed as oxolinic acid WP and oxytetracycline WP. Control efficacy of four anti-bacterial pesticides on seed and seedling stage were performed. As a results, oxytetracyclin WP is shown over 90% control efficiency on seed and acibenzolar-S-methyl + mancozeb WP shown over 90% control efficiency on seedling stage Hot-water treatment method could be possible to reduced infection rate on seed. The conditions of hot-water treatments are $50{\sim}55^{\circ}C$ on 20~30 minutes. These results suggested that the methods were helpful watermelon seedling nursery to control of the bacterial fruit blotch by A. avenae subsp. citrulli.

• Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.945-955
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• 2016

To date, chemical managements of plant bacterial diseases are complicated by limitations on use of antibiotics in agriculture, antibiotic resistance development, and limited efficacy of alternative control agents. In this study, thus, we performed screening of eco-friendly farming material (notice no. 2-4-064) containing tannic acid as new antibacterial-activity against 7 plant bacterial pathogens: Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum (Pcc), Ralstonia solanacearum (Rs), Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli (Aac), Xanthomonas cirti pv. citri (Xcc), Erwinia pyrifoliae (Ep), Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm), and Streptomyces scabies (Sc), Initial screening of antibacterial effects of eco-friendly farming material was performed using the paper disk diffusion method and co-cultivation in broth culture. Tannic acid based eco-friendly farming material showed inhibitory effect against Pcc, Rs, Aac, Xcc, Cmm, and Ss, whereas it did not show inhibition zone against Ep. However, when it tested by co-cultivation in broth culture, it showed strong inhibition effect against all pathogens that declined growth curve compared to bacterial pathogen only. Interestingly, when we observed morphological changes on those pathogens by SEM, cell morphologies of 7 pathogens were slightly changed that seem to be malfunction in their cell envelope.