'Faculty of Medicine Prince of Songkla University'
Abstract
Crop plant diseases caused by oomycetes and fungi have caused a lot of environmental, economic, and health damage
to mankind. Streptomyces flaveus has been known to be able to suppress the growth of many oomycetes and fungal plant
pathogens due to its ability to produce SW-B, an antibiotic. However, this antibiotic was reported not to be active enough to
suppress the growth of a number of other fungal plant pathogens. In this paper, we demonstrate that S. flaveus RT1-1 was able to
degrade fungal biomass and colloidal chitin due to producing chitinases. This promotes the potential of S. flaveus RT1-1 as a
biocontrol agent that could help in achieving many sustainable development goals, to the benefit of mankind