Abstract:In order to evaluate classification status of biocontrol B-3 and its control efficacy to pepper wilt, antifungal action of biocontrol strain B-3 to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. vasinfectum was determined using cylinder plate method, its control efficacy to pepper wilt was study by pot and field tests, and its identification was launched by means of phenotypic characteristics observation, physiological and biochemical indexes determination and the assay of 16S rDNA sequences. The results showed that the fermentation broth and its filtrate of strain B-3 showed a better antagonistic activity to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.vasinfectum, pot and field trials of strain B-3 indicated that it had a better control efficacy to pepper wilt and was 73.6% and 64.8%, respectively, significantly better than 100mg/L carbendazim. Phenotypic, physiological and biochemical characteristics of strain B-3 were very close to those of Bacillus subtilis. In addition, the strain B-3 and the sequence of Bacillus subtilis strain MO5 constituted a separate branch and had a nearest evolutionary distance by phylogenetic tree of 16S rDNA sequences. According to the morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics, and based on phylogenetic analysis, strain B-3 was identified as B.subtilis.