Abstract:
Bamboo fungus is a popular pharmaceutical and food material. In recent years, its antimicrobial effects were frequently reported. The present study compared the growth of
FocTR4 on a PDA medium containing 66.7 g·L
-1, 50.0 g·L
-1L or 40.0 g·L
-1 of the crude extracts (CEs) from pilei, volva and stipes of the fungi to determine the fungal inhibition effect of CEs. The results showed that all CEs inhibited
FocTR4 growth with the efficacy declined as the concentration of CE decreased. The inhibition of pileus CE was the strongest and very significantly higher than those of volva and stipe CEs. The volva CE was only slightly better than the stipe CE in that regard. At 66.7 g·L
-1, the pileus CE exhibited a higher than 30% inhibition rate in 6 days. The rate peaked on the second day to 41.18%. The CEs of bamboo fungus, especially from the pilei, demonstrated an effective inhibitory effect on
FocTR4, suggesting a promising potential of it being used for controlling banana Fusarium wilt.