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A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries

The species Pantoea agglomerans includes strains that are agronomically relevant for their growth-promoting or biocontrol traits. Molecular analysis demonstrated that the IPDC pathway involved in the conversion of tryptophan (Trp) to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is highly conserved among P. agglomeran...

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Autores principales: Luziatelli, Francesca, Ficca, Anna Grazia, Bonini, Paolo, Muleo, Rosario, Gatti, Lorenzo, Meneghini, Massimiliano, Tronati, Michele, Melini, Francesca, Ruzzi, Maurizio
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765438
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01475
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author Luziatelli, Francesca
Ficca, Anna Grazia
Bonini, Paolo
Muleo, Rosario
Gatti, Lorenzo
Meneghini, Massimiliano
Tronati, Michele
Melini, Francesca
Ruzzi, Maurizio
author_facet Luziatelli, Francesca
Ficca, Anna Grazia
Bonini, Paolo
Muleo, Rosario
Gatti, Lorenzo
Meneghini, Massimiliano
Tronati, Michele
Melini, Francesca
Ruzzi, Maurizio
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description The species Pantoea agglomerans includes strains that are agronomically relevant for their growth-promoting or biocontrol traits. Molecular analysis demonstrated that the IPDC pathway involved in the conversion of tryptophan (Trp) to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is highly conserved among P. agglomerans strains at both gene and protein levels. Results also indicated that the promoter region controlling the inducible expression of ipdC gene differs from the model system Enterobacter cloacae, which is in accordance with the observation that P. agglomerans accumulates higher levels of IAA when cells are collected in the exponential phase of growth. To assess the potential applications of these microorganisms for IAA production, P. agglomerans C1, an efficient auxin-producer strain, was cultivated in 5 L fermenter so as to evaluate the effect of the medium formulation, the physiological state of the cells, and the induction timing on the volumetric productivity. Results demonstrated that higher IAA levels were obtained by using a saline medium amended with yeast extract and saccharose and by providing Trp, which acts both as a precursor and an inducer, to a culture in the exponential phase of growth. Untargeted metabolomic analysis revealed a significant effect of the carbon source on the exometabolome profile relative to IAA-related compounds and other plant bioactive signaling molecules. The IAA-enriched metabolites secreted in the culture medium by P. agglomerans C1 were used as plant biostimulants to run a series of trials at a large-scale nursery farm. Tests were carried out with in vitro and ex vitro systems following the regular protocols used for large-scale plant tree agamic propagation. Results obtained with 4,540 microcuttings of Prunus rootstock GF/677 and 1,080 plantlets of Corylus avellana L. showed that metabolites from strain C1 improved percentage of rooted-explant, number of adventitious root formation, plant survival, and quality of plant as vigor, with an increase in the leaf area between 17.5 and 42.7% compared to IBA-K (indole-3-butyric acid potassium salt)–treated plants.
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spelling pubmed-73811772020-08-05 A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries Luziatelli, Francesca Ficca, Anna Grazia Bonini, Paolo Muleo, Rosario Gatti, Lorenzo Meneghini, Massimiliano Tronati, Michele Melini, Francesca Ruzzi, Maurizio Front Microbiol Microbiology The species Pantoea agglomerans includes strains that are agronomically relevant for their growth-promoting or biocontrol traits. Molecular analysis demonstrated that the IPDC pathway involved in the conversion of tryptophan (Trp) to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is highly conserved among P. agglomerans strains at both gene and protein levels. Results also indicated that the promoter region controlling the inducible expression of ipdC gene differs from the model system Enterobacter cloacae, which is in accordance with the observation that P. agglomerans accumulates higher levels of IAA when cells are collected in the exponential phase of growth. To assess the potential applications of these microorganisms for IAA production, P. agglomerans C1, an efficient auxin-producer strain, was cultivated in 5 L fermenter so as to evaluate the effect of the medium formulation, the physiological state of the cells, and the induction timing on the volumetric productivity. Results demonstrated that higher IAA levels were obtained by using a saline medium amended with yeast extract and saccharose and by providing Trp, which acts both as a precursor and an inducer, to a culture in the exponential phase of growth. Untargeted metabolomic analysis revealed a significant effect of the carbon source on the exometabolome profile relative to IAA-related compounds and other plant bioactive signaling molecules. The IAA-enriched metabolites secreted in the culture medium by P. agglomerans C1 were used as plant biostimulants to run a series of trials at a large-scale nursery farm. Tests were carried out with in vitro and ex vitro systems following the regular protocols used for large-scale plant tree agamic propagation. Results obtained with 4,540 microcuttings of Prunus rootstock GF/677 and 1,080 plantlets of Corylus avellana L. showed that metabolites from strain C1 improved percentage of rooted-explant, number of adventitious root formation, plant survival, and quality of plant as vigor, with an increase in the leaf area between 17.5 and 42.7% compared to IBA-K (indole-3-butyric acid potassium salt)–treated plants. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7381177/ /pubmed/32765438 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01475 Text en Copyright © 2020 Luziatelli, Ficca, Bonini, Muleo, Gatti, Meneghini, Tronati, Melini and Ruzzi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Microbiology
Luziatelli, Francesca
Ficca, Anna Grazia
Bonini, Paolo
Muleo, Rosario
Gatti, Lorenzo
Meneghini, Massimiliano
Tronati, Michele
Melini, Francesca
Ruzzi, Maurizio
A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries
title A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries
title_full A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries
title_fullStr A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries
title_full_unstemmed A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries
title_short A Genetic and Metabolomic Perspective on the Production of Indole-3-Acetic Acid by Pantoea agglomerans and Use of Their Metabolites as Biostimulants in Plant Nurseries
title_sort genetic and metabolomic perspective on the production of indole-3-acetic acid by pantoea agglomerans and use of their metabolites as biostimulants in plant nurseries
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765438
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01475
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