NOVEL BACTERIAL ISOLATE AND THE PREPARATION AND USE OF ITS ACTIVE METABOLITES

摘要

The invention relates to a new biocontrol agent and its active metabolites for use in controlling weeds and/or fungal growth and differentiation, the biocontrol agent being a strain (A 153) of the bacterium Serratia plymuthica, an isolate of which has been deposited at NCIMB and received the accession No. 40938, and its active metabolites being haterumalide A, B, E and X and derivatives thereof. The invention also relates to weed and fungus suppressing compositions and methods for suppressing weeds and fungi using said bacterial strain or its active metabolites or said compositions.