Production of Bioactive Compounds Against Wood Contaminant Fungi: An Artificial...

• Author(s): Caldeira, A. Teresa ; Roseiro, José ; Arteiro, José ; Neves, José ; Vicente, Henrique
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/3434
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Bacillus; Phyto-pathogenic Fungi; Spore Formation; Anti-fungal Activity; Neural Networks; Intelligent Predictive Models
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English
• Editor(s): Caldeira, Fernando

Description

A strain of Bacillus amiloliquefaciens was examined for antifungal activity against wood surface contaminant fungi, blue stain fungi and phytopathogenic fungi. The bacterium was grown in liquid culture media in batch or continuous culture, with different dilution rates, in order to study cell development and the production of metabolites with antifungal activity. The bacterium inhibited the growth of fifteen fungi and displayed a broader spectrum of activity. Artificial Neural Networks based approach was used in this study and a relationship between growth rate and the formation of metabolites with antifungal activity was detected.