[Objective] Brevibacil us laterosporus BL-21 was inhibitory to Gibberel a sanbinetti, Fusarium graminearum Magnaporthe grisea and many other phy-topathogenic fungi. Antimicrobial substances can be increased through optimizing the medium of Brevibacil us laterosporus. [Method] A total of 10 factors were tested for their function of improving antibiotics yield of BL-21 by single-factor test. And the indicative bacterium was screened. [Result] The best indicative bacterium was Al-ternaria solani, the optimum process parameters in shaking flask on fermentation consisted of initial pH of 8.0, culture at 30 ℃, loadage 90 ml/250 ml, rotation 180 r/min, and fermentation time of 48 h. The results also indicated that glucose was the best carbon source for the antibiotics productivity of BL-21, and beef extract was the best nitrogen source. In addition, univalent ion Cl＋ and divalent ion Mn2＋ stimu-lated BL-21 antibacterial active component biosynthesis. [Conclusion] Optimized medi-um is more conducive to produce antimicrobial substances.
