Potential of Endophytic Fungi of Dragon Fruit Plant (Hylocereus polyrhizus) as a Biological Control Against Colletotrichum sp.

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Dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus); endophytic fungi; Colletotrichum sp.; biological control

Abstract

Dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) is one of the most widely cultivated fruit plants in Indonesia. Along with the development of dragon fruit cultivation, farmers face the problem of increasing pest and disease attacks. Environmentally friendly disease control efforts can use natural enemies of plant pathogens or biological control. This research was conducted at the IHPT Laboratory (Plant Pest Disease Science), Faculty of Agriculture, Mulawarman University from August to October 2023. Factorial experiment in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 10 replications was used in this study. The Single Factor in this study was the test of inhibition of antagonistic fungi against the growth of Colletotrichum sp. the data obtained were analysed by using varience analysis (ANOVA). The data obtained were analysed using variance analysis (ANOVA) and further tested using the Least Significant Difference (BNT) test at the 5% level. This study shows that in the stem of dragon fruit plants there are endophytic fungi Trichoderma sp., Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Gliocladium sp. which are able to provide inhibitory activity against pathogenic fungal colonies. The endophytic fungus that has the highest inhibitory power is Trichoderma sp. by 5.99%. This shows that the compound compounds such as gliotoxin and glioviridin are able to inhibit the growth of pathogens.

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AU  - Sopialena Sopialena
AU  - Andi Suryadi
AU  - Rosfiansyah
AU  - Reja Saragih
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/08/22
TI  - Potential of Endophytic Fungi of Dragon Fruit Plant (Hylocereus polyrhizus) as a Biological Control Against Colletotrichum sp.
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Tropical Agrifood Feed and Fuel 2024 (ICTAFF 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 241
EP  - 252
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-825-7_19
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-825-7_19
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