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Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization
As well as killing pest insects, the rhizosphere competent insect-pathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii also boosts plant growth by providing nitrogenous nutrients and increasing resistance to plant pathogens. Plant roots secrete abundant nutrients but little is known about their utilization by Me...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24205119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078118 |
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author | Liao, Xinggang Fang, Weiguo Lin, Liangcai Lu, Hsiao-Ling Leger, Raymond J. St. |
author_facet | Liao, Xinggang Fang, Weiguo Lin, Liangcai Lu, Hsiao-Ling Leger, Raymond J. St. |
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description | As well as killing pest insects, the rhizosphere competent insect-pathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii also boosts plant growth by providing nitrogenous nutrients and increasing resistance to plant pathogens. Plant roots secrete abundant nutrients but little is known about their utilization by Metarhizium spp. and the mechanistic basis of Metarhizium-plant associations. We report here that M. robertsii produces an extracellular invertase (MrInv) on plant roots. Deletion of MrInv (⊿MrInv) reduced M. robertsii growth on sucrose and rhizospheric exudates but increased colonization of Panicum virgatum and Arabidopsis thaliana roots. This could be accounted for by a reduction in carbon catabolite repression in ⊿MrInv increasing production of plant cell wall-degrading depolymerases. A non-rhizosphere competent scarab beetle specialist Metarhizium majus lacks invertase which suggests that rhizospheric competence may be related to the sugar metabolism of different Metarhizium species. |
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spelling | pubmed-38044582013-11-07 Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization Liao, Xinggang Fang, Weiguo Lin, Liangcai Lu, Hsiao-Ling Leger, Raymond J. St. PLoS One Research Article As well as killing pest insects, the rhizosphere competent insect-pathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii also boosts plant growth by providing nitrogenous nutrients and increasing resistance to plant pathogens. Plant roots secrete abundant nutrients but little is known about their utilization by Metarhizium spp. and the mechanistic basis of Metarhizium-plant associations. We report here that M. robertsii produces an extracellular invertase (MrInv) on plant roots. Deletion of MrInv (⊿MrInv) reduced M. robertsii growth on sucrose and rhizospheric exudates but increased colonization of Panicum virgatum and Arabidopsis thaliana roots. This could be accounted for by a reduction in carbon catabolite repression in ⊿MrInv increasing production of plant cell wall-degrading depolymerases. A non-rhizosphere competent scarab beetle specialist Metarhizium majus lacks invertase which suggests that rhizospheric competence may be related to the sugar metabolism of different Metarhizium species. Public Library of Science 2013-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3804458/ /pubmed/24205119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078118 Text en © 2013 Liao et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Liao, Xinggang Fang, Weiguo Lin, Liangcai Lu, Hsiao-Ling Leger, Raymond J. St. Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization |
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Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization |
title_full |
Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization |
title_fullStr |
Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization |
title_full_unstemmed |
Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization |
title_short |
Metarhizium robertsii Produces an Extracellular Invertase (MrINV) That Plays a Pivotal Role in Rhizospheric Interactions and Root Colonization |
title_sort | metarhizium robertsii produces an extracellular invertase (mrinv) that plays a pivotal role in rhizospheric interactions and root colonization |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24205119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078118 |
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