日本一个研究小组利用一种乳酸菌的抗菌作用,研制出了防治两种农作物病害的“乳酸菌农药”。据悉,由京都府农业资源研究中心开发的这种“乳酸菌农药”用乳酸片球菌作原料,将其制成液态药物,再把菠菜种子在这种药液里浸泡24小时。把处理的种子播种到含菠菜枯萎病病原菌的土壤内栽培,结果在长出来的菠菜中,染病菠菜只占约12%。辣椒苗经乳酸片球菌制剂处理后,因细菌引起的辣椒根部腐烂的几率是未经处理情况下的约20%。 A research team in Japan used the antibacterial effect of a lactic acid bacterium to develop a “lactic acid bacteria pesticide” for controlling two kinds of crop diseases. It is reported that by the Kyoto Prefecture Agricultural Resources Research Center developed this “lactic acid bacteria pesticides ” with Pediococcus acidilactici as raw material, made of liquid drugs, and then immersed in this liquid spinach seeds for 24 hours. The treated seeds were sown in the soil containing spinach wilt pathogens, resulting in the growth of spinach, spinach accounted for only about 12%. After peppermint treatment with Pediococcus lactis, the chances of root rot caused by bacteria were about 20% in the untreated condition.