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Flagella-Driven Chemotaxis Towards Exudate Components Is an Important Trait for Tomato Root Colonization by Pseudomonas fluorescens
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Titel: |
Flagella-Driven Chemotaxis Towards Exudate Components Is an Important Trait for Tomato Root Colonization by Pseudomonas fluorescens |
In: | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®, 15, 2002, 11, S. 1173-1180 |
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Umfang: | 1173-1180 |
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0894-0282 1943-7706 |
DOI: | 10.1094/mpmi.2002.15.11.1173 |
Zusammenfassung: | <jats:p> Motility is a major trait for competitive tomato root-tip colonization by Pseudomonas fluorescens. To test the hypothesis that this role of motility is based on chemotaxis toward exudate components, cheA mutants that were defective in flagella-driven chemotaxis but retained motility were constructed in four P. fluorescens strains. After inoculation of seedlings with a 1:1 mixture of wild-type and nonmotile mutants all mutants had a strongly reduced competitive root colonizing ability after 7 days of plant growth, both in a gnotobiotic sand system as well as in non-sterile potting soil. The differences were significant on all root parts and increased from root base to root tip. Significant differences at the root tip could already be detected after 2 to 3 days. These experiments show that chemotaxis is an important competitive colonization trait. The best competitive root-tip colonizer, strain WCS365, was tested for chemotaxis toward tomato root exudate and its major identified components. A chemotactic response was detected toward root exudate, some organic acids, and some amino acids from this exudate but not toward its sugars. Comparison of the minimal concentrations required for a chemotactic response with concentrations estimated for exudates suggested that malic acid and citric acid are among major chemo-attractants for P. fluorescens WCS365 cells in the tomato rhizosphere. </jats:p> |
Format: | E-Article |
Quelle: | Scientific Societies (CrossRef) |
Sprache: | Englisch |