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    Abundance and diversity of tomato rhizosphere microbes and their effect on bacterial wilt disease

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    Date
    2019-12
    Author
    Nampamya, D.
    Type
    Thesis
    Review Status
    Internal Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    Abstract/Description
    The use of land for agricultural production is always accompanied with changes in microbial diversity and emergency of new pathogens. Microbial imbalances and unevenness have enhanced multiplication of pathogens and proliferation of many soil borne diseases, which are tedious to control. Biocontrols are promising and environmentally friendly agents against such diseases. However, microbiome composition and land use management have been mentioned as core factors in effectiveness of biocontrols. These factors are shaped by management and land use types. The focus of this research was to determine the diversity and abundance of microbes in the tomato rhizosphere and its effect on severity and control of bacterial wilt disease. Tomatoes were grown in a screen house at Namulonge using unsterilized soils from cultivated, fallow and forest land use types. Four biocontrols were used namely; Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Peanibacillus polymyxa and Stenotrophomonas rhizophila. A negative control and a positive control were included. Data were collected on plant growth and yield parameters, and bacterial wilt disease incidence. Rhizosphere microbiome data were obtained using amplicon sequencing. Results showed that B. subtilis and P. polymyxa increased plant height in all land use types. Biocontrols B. amyloliquefaciens and S.rhizophila produced most dry biomass in cultivated land use, B. amyloliquefaciens and P. polymyxa in fallow and P. polymyxa and B. subtilis in forest land use type. In cultivated land use, biocontrols B. amyloliquefaciens, B. subtilis and S. rhizophila reduced bacterial wilt incidence by 31 % and P. polymyxa by 28 %. Fallow land use type had the highest microbial diversity and forest land use had the highest microbial abundance. The major phyla were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria in Forest, Fallow and cultivated land uses respectively. Bacillus and Paenibacillus bacteria were more abundant in cultivated while Stenotrophomonas bacteria were more abundant in forest land use type.
    Acknowledgements
    I extend my sincere thanks to Austrian Developmental Agency (ADA) that funded the Healthy Vegetable Seedlings project at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA) and University of Technology, Graz, for which this study was part. I am tremendously grateful to my academic supervisors Dr. John Baptist Tumuhairwe and Prof. Herbert Talwana at Makerere University for their guidance from the time when the research was started up to the final stage. I also appreciate Dr. Danny Coyne, ...
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7828
    IITA Subjects
    Agribusiness; Agronomy; Biodiversity; Disease Control; Pests of Plants; Plant Diseases; Plant Production
    Agrovoc Terms
    Biodiversity; Biological Control; Tomatoes; Agricultural Production; Pathogens; Soil; Stenotrophomonas; Rhizosphere; Land Use; Forests
    Regions
    Africa; East Africa
    Countries
    Uganda
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