Project description:This project aims to discover novel bioactive compounds from Streptomyces isolated from the rhizosphere from wild medicinal plants from Hamedan province, Iran. Proteomics is used to assist in discovery and characterization of the compounds. Streptomyces isolates are grown on ISP-4 medium for three days, proteins were extracted and analysed by shotgun proteomics.
Project description:The aim of the work was to carry out the physiological, biochemical and genetic characterization of the Exiguobacterium alkaliphilum B-3531D strain. This strain is promising for use in the field of environmental biotechnology, since it has a pronounced ability to utilize crude oil and individual hydrocarbons in a wide temperature range. The genome of the strain was sequenced and completely assembled, it consists of a 2,903,369 bp circular chromosome and two circular plasmids, namely, pE73 (73,590 bp) and pE52 (52,125 bp). When cultivated in a mineral medium containing 2% of crude oil, the strain utilized 50% within 30 days of the experiment. In simulated seawater with the same oil content, the loss of hydrocarbons was 45% over the same period. For the first time we observed in an E. alkaliphilum strain the ability to efficiently utilize crude oil, including with an increased content of sodium chloride in the cultivation medium.
Project description:In this study, we describe the isolation and identification of Streptomyces isolates collected from traditional medicinal plants’ rhizosphere during a campaign in Hamedan Province, Iran. Traditional medicinal plants represent a rich and unique source for the isolation of Streptomyces and new antimicrobial compounds. This strain was isolated from the rhizosphere of Helichrysum rubicundum
Project description:<p>Biological nitrogen fixation by free-living bacteria and rhizobial symbiosis with legumes plays a key role in sustainable crop production. Here, we study how different crop combinations influence the interaction between peanut plants and their rhizosphere microbiota via metabolite deposition and functional responses of free-living and symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Based on a long-term (8 year) diversified cropping field experiment, we find that peanut co-cultured with maize and oilseed rape lead to specific changes in peanut rhizosphere metabolite profiles and bacterial functions and nodulation. Flavonoids and coumarins accumulate due to the activation of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathways in peanuts. These changes enhance the growth and nitrogen fixation activity of free-living bacterial isolates, and root nodulation by symbiotic Bradyrhizobium isolates. Peanut plant root metabolites interact with Bradyrhizobium isolates contributing to initiate nodulation. Our findings demonstrate that tailored intercropping could be used to improve soil nitrogen availability through changes in the rhizosphere microbiome and its functions.</p>
Project description:The transcriptional response of the Mexican Lime to two different isolates of the Citrus Tristeza Virus was evaluated. Virus Isolates were T305, which provokes severe symptoms in Lime plants, and isolate T385 which does not result in any visible symptoms. Five Lime plants were inoculated with each virus isolate, and four healthy plants were used to create a pooled control. Citrus custom arrays were hybridized with an infected sample and the pooled control, using a dyeswap design. In total, the experiment comprised hybridizations with twenty microarrays, ten for each virus isolate, including five biological replicates, each technically duplicated by dye-swapping.
Project description:This study evaluated the transcriptomic profiles of Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0) plants grown along bacterial isolates whose interactions induce root morhology changes in the plant
Project description:Improved understanding of bacterial-fungal interactions in the rhizosphere should assist in the successful application of bacteria as biological control agents against fungal pathogens of plants, providing alternatives to chemicals in sustainable agriculture. To understand the functional response of the fungal phytopathogen Rhizoctonia solani to different bacteria and to elucidate whether the molecular mechanisms that the fungus exploits involve general stress or more specific responses, we performed a global transcriptome profiling of R. solani Rhs1AP anastomosis group 3 (AG-3) during interaction with the S4 and AS13 species of Serratia using RNA-seq. Transcriptome analysis revealed that approximately 10% of the fungal transcriptome was differentially expressed during challenge with Serratia. The numbers of S4- and AS13-specific differentially expressed genes (DEG) were 866 and 292 respectively, while there were 1035 common DEGs in the two treatment groups. Four hundred and sixty and 242 genes respectively had fold values exceeding 8x and for further analyses this cut-off value was used. Functional classification of DEGs revealed a general shift in fungal gene expression in which genes related to xenobiotic degradation, toxin and antioxidant production, energy, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and hyphal rearrangements were subjected to transcriptional regulation. In conclusion, it was found out that most genes were regulated in the same way in the presence of both bacterial isolates, but there were also some strain-specific responses. The findings in this study will be beneficial for further research on biological control and in depth exploration of bacterial-fungal interactions in the rhizosphere.
