Exploration And Identification Of Microbes Isolated from Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Dutch.) Rhizosphere In Pancasari Bedugul, Bali

ABSTRACTThe main objective of this research wasto isolate and identify microbes residing in the rhizosphere zone of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassaDutch.),cultivated atPancasarivillage, Bedugul Bali. This was an explorative anddescriptive research conducted fromApril to July 2018. Soil samples were collected fromthe rhizosphere of strawberry plantsand microbes residing in them were isolated by applying dilution and platting method, purified, and identified at the Food Microbology Laboratory, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Udayana University. Important characteristics of the isolated microbes were compared to those specified in references, such as Bergey’s Manual of Determine Bacteriology 9thEdition(Holt et al., 1994) for bacterial isolates and Fungal Identification keys (Barnett and Hunter, 1972; dan Pitt and Hocking, 2009) for fungal isolates. Microbes successfully isolated and identified in this research included fungi and bacteria belong to Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Fusarium oxysporum, and Colletotrichumsp., Pseudomonassp., and Bacillussp. Keywords: rhizosphere, strawberry, microbes.