- Title
- Delving into defence: identifying the Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 gene suite involved in defence against secreted products of fungal, oomycete and bacterial rhizosphere competitors
- Creator
- Vick, Silas H. W.; Fabian, Belinda K.; Dawson, Catherine J.; Foster, Christie; Asher, Amy; Hassan, Karl A.; Midgley, David J.; Paulsen, Ian T.; Tetu, Sasha G.
- Relation
- ARC.FT180100123 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100123
- Relation
- Microbial Genomics Vol. 7, Issue 11, no. 000671
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000671
- Publisher
- The Microbiology Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Competitive behaviours of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are integral to their ability to colonize and persist on plant roots and outcompete phytopathogenic fungi, oomycetes and bacteria. PGPR engage in a range of antagonistic behaviours that have been studied in detail, such as the production and secretion of compounds inhibitory to other microbes. In contrast, their defensive activities that enable them to tolerate exposure to inhibitory compounds produced by their neighbours are less well understood. In this study, the genes involved in the Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 response to metabolites from eight diverse rhizosphere competitor organisms, Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizoctonia solani, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, Pythium spinosum, Bacillus subtilis QST713, Pseudomonas sp. Q2-87, Streptomyces griseus and Streptomyces bikiniensis subspecies bikiniensi, were examined. Proximity induced excreted metabolite responses were confirmed for Pf-5 with all partner organisms through HPLC before culturing a dense Pf-5 transposon mutant library adjacent to each of these microbes. This was followed by transposon-directed insertion site sequencing (TraDIS), which identified genes that influence Pf-5 fitness during these competitive interactions. A set of 148 genes was identified that were associated with increased fitness during competition, including cell surface modification, electron transport, nucleotide metabolism, as well as regulatory genes. In addition, 51 genes were identified for which loss of function resulted in fitness gains during competition. These included genes involved in flagella biosynthesis and cell division. Considerable overlap was observed in the set of genes observed to provide a fitness benefit during competition with all eight test organisms, indicating commonalities in the competitive response to phylogenetically diverse micro-organisms and providing new insight into competitive processes likely to take place in the rhizosphere.
- Subject
- biocontrol; competition; interkingdom interactions; PGPR; rhizosphere; saturation mutagenesis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438547
- Identifier
- uon:40641
- Identifier
- ISSN:2057-5858
- Rights
- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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