Project description:We report the banana transcriptome profile in response to two distinct growth-promoting rhizobacteria, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Pseudomonas fluorescens. The goal of our study is to identify plant genes differentially regulated by rhizobacteria-plant interaction along time. At the same time, we show that despite these two rhizobacteria regulate distinct sets of genes, the same functional categories has been over-represented, such as transcription factor activity, response to stress and metabolic processes.
Project description:Volatiles of certain rhizobacteria can cause growth inhibitory effects on plants/ Arabidopsis thaliana. How these effects are initiated and which mechanisms are enrolled is not yet understood. Obviously the plant can survive/live with the bacteria in the soil, which suggest the existance of a regulatory mechanism/network that provide the possibility for coexistance with the bacteria. To shed light on this regulatory mechanism/network we performed a microarray anlaysis of Arabidopsis thaliana co-cultivated with two different rhizobacteria strains. In this study we used the ATH1 GeneChip microarray to investigate the transcriptional response of 4 to 5 days old Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings at 6 h, 12 h and 24 h exposure to volatiles of the rhizobacteria Serratia plymuthica HRO-C48 or Stenotrophomonas maltophilia R3089.
Project description:Volatiles of certain rhizobacteria can cause growth inhibitory effects on plants/ Arabidopsis thaliana. How these effects are initiated and which mechanisms are enrolled is not yet understood. Obviously the plant can survive/live with the bacteria in the soil, which suggest the existance of a regulatory mechanism/network that provide the possibility for coexistance with the bacteria. To shed light on this regulatory mechanism/network we performed a microarray anlaysis of Arabidopsis thaliana co-cultivated with two different rhizobacteria strains. In this study we used the ATH1 GeneChip microarray to investigate the transcriptional response of 4 to 5 days old Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings at 6 h, 12 h and 24 h exposure to volatiles of the rhizobacteria Serratia plymuthica HRO-C48 or Stenotrophomonas maltophilia R3089. Seedlings from Arabidopsis thaliana were harvested at different time points at exposure to volatiles of two different strains of bacteria. Samples were taken at the start of the experiment (T0) and after 6, 12 and 24 hours (T6, T12, T24 respectively). Two biological replicates from pooled seedlings (from 5 plates, from the respective time points) were used for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays (ATH1 GeneChip; GEO accsession GPL198).
Project description:ra04-07_pgpr - trancriptional response to 3 rhizobacteria - Experiment 1 : Which genes are up- or down-regulated in Arabidopsis thaliana cultivated in vitro with increased lateral root development in response to Phyllobacterium STM196 inoculation. Experiment 2 : Which genes are up- or down-regulated during the ISR triggered by a rhizobacteria, in comparison with those affected by a pathogenic interaction. Experiment 3 : which genes are specifically induced or repressed in Arabidopsis thaliana by inoculation of the soil with a PGPR vs a bacteria that has the ability to trigger nodule formation in a Legume. - Seeds of wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Columbia) were surface-sterilized and sawn on agar mineral medium. Four days after storage in the dark at 4degreeC, seedlings were cultivated 6 days in a growth chamber (16 h daily, 20-22degreeC) and then transferred on soil inoculated or not with 108 cfu.g-1 of Mesorhizobium loti, or 108 cfu.g-1 of Phyllobacterium STM196, or 107 cfu.g-1 of Bradyrhizobium ORS278. Keywords: treated vs untreated comparison
Project description:Sequencing and analysis of three plant growth promoting rhizobacteria isolated from the rhizosphere of plantation crops coconut, cocoa and arecanut
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome analysis in response to plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR)<br> Experiment 1 : Changes in gene expression profile triggered during root architecture response to Phyllobacterium.<br> Biological question : Which genes are up- or down-regulated in Arabidopsis thaliana cultivated in vitro with increased lateral root development in response to Phyllobacterium STM196 inoculation.<br> Experiment description: Seeds of wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Columbia) were surface-sterilized and sown on agar mineral medium (see below). 4 days after storage in the dark at 4C, seedling were cultivated 6 days in a growth chamber (16 h daily, 20-22C) and then transferred on a fresh agar mineral medium inoculated or not with Phyllobacterium STM196 (2.108 cfu/ml). 6 days later, root and leaves were collected, froze on liquid nitrogen and stored at -80C.<br> <br> Experiment 2 : Changes in gene expression profile triggered during induced systemic resistance (ISR)<br> Biological question : Which genes are up- or down-regulated during the ISR triggered by a rhizobacteria, in comparison with those affected by a pathogenic interaction. <br> Experiment description: Seeds were sown on 0.8% (W/V) agar mineral medium (see below). 4 days after storage in the dark at 4C, seedling were cultivated 6 days in a growth chamber (16 h daily, 20-22C) and then transferred on soil inoculated or not with 107 cfu.g-1 of Bradyrhizobium strain ORS278. Three weeks later, 3 leaves per plant were infiltrated with a suspension of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (2.105 cfu.ml-1) or with MgSO4 10 mM alone for control plants. Infiltrated leaves were collected 24h later.<br> <br> Experiment 3 : Comparison of the effects of 3 rhizobacteria on Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome<br> Biological question : which genes are specifically induced or repressed in Arabidopsis thaliana by inoculation of the soil with a PGPR vs a bacteria that has the ability to trigger nodule formation in a Legume. <br> Experiment description: Seeds of wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Columbia) were surface-sterilized and sown on agar mineral medium. Four days after storage in the dark at 4C, seedlings were cultivated 6 days in a growth chamber (16 h daily, 20-22C) and then transferred on soil inoculated or not with 108 cfu.g-1 of Mesorhizobium loti, or 108 cfu.g-1 of Phyllobacterium STM196, or 107 cfu.g-1 of Bradyrhizobium ORS278.
Project description:Unlike pathogens that trigger plant defense responses, beneficial microbes are compatible with plants. One possible reason for the compatibility is that the microbial factors from beneficial microbes are inert in that they do not trigger plant defense responses. Little is known about the mechanisms underlying this seemingly inert relation. Here we report that Arabidopsis lacking the gene Growth-Promotion 1 (GP1) becomes defensive to microbial volatiles from Bacillus amyloliqueficiens strain GB03, a beneficial rhizobacterium. The gp1 mutant was isolated in a forward genetic screen for mutants that show defectiveness in GB03-triggered plant inducible vigor. GP1 encodes a stearoyl-ACP desaturase that catalyzes the desaturation of stearic acid (18:0) to oleic acid (18:1). Consistently, plant inducible vigor was also impaired by chemical enhancement of 18:1 catabolism, while genetic disruption of 18:1 catabolism largely restored the inducible vigor in gp1. When exposed to GB03-emitted microbial volatiles (GMVs), wild type plants showed transcriptional up-regulation of growth-promoting processes and down-regulation of defense responses; in contrast, the gp1 transcriptome displayed elevated defense responses when treated with GMVs. Meanwhile disruption of salicylic acid-mediated defense partially restored plant inducible vigor in gp1. Microbiota profiling revealed that GP1 dysfunction alters the assemblage of plant-associated rhizobacteria communities, including a reduction in the Bacillaceae family that is known to contain many beneficial rhizobacteria species. Consistently, gp1 mutants showed severely impaired root colonization of GB03. Our findings suggest that GP1 prevents the plant defense system from being mistakenly activated by non-pathogenic microbial factors, thereby allowing mutualistic association between the plant and beneficial microbes.