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A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens
Streptomyces are soil-borne Actinobacteria known to produce a wide range of enzymes, phytohormones, and metabolites including antifungal compounds, making these microbes fitting for use as biocontrol agents in agriculture. In this study, a plant reporter gene construct comprising the biotic stress-r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540894 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.708530 |
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author | Belt, Katharina Foley, Rhonda C. O’Sullivan, Cathryn A. Roper, Margaret M. Singh, Karam B. Thatcher, Louise F. |
author_facet | Belt, Katharina Foley, Rhonda C. O’Sullivan, Cathryn A. Roper, Margaret M. Singh, Karam B. Thatcher, Louise F. |
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description | Streptomyces are soil-borne Actinobacteria known to produce a wide range of enzymes, phytohormones, and metabolites including antifungal compounds, making these microbes fitting for use as biocontrol agents in agriculture. In this study, a plant reporter gene construct comprising the biotic stress-responsive glutathione S-transferase promoter GSTF7 linked to a luciferase output (GSTF7:luc) was used to screen a collection of Actinobacteria candidates for manipulation of plant biotic stress responses and their potential as biocontrol agents. We identified a Streptomyces isolate (KB001) as a strong candidate and demonstrated successful protection against two necrotrophic fungal pathogens, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Rhizoctonia solani, but not against a bacterial pathogen (Pseudomonas syringe). Treatment of Arabidopsis plants with either KB001 microbial culture or its secreted compounds induced a range of stress and defense response-related genes like pathogenesis-related (PR) and hormone signaling pathways. Global transcriptomic analysis showed that both treatments shared highly induced expression of reactive oxygen species and auxin signaling pathways at 6 and 24 h posttreatment, while some other responses were treatment specific. This study demonstrates that GSTF7 is a suitable marker for the rapid and preliminary screening of beneficial bacteria and selection of candidates with potential for application as biocontrols in agriculture, including the Streptomyces KB001 that was characterized here, and could provide protection against necrotrophic fungal pathogens. |
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spelling | pubmed-84465172021-09-18 A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Belt, Katharina Foley, Rhonda C. O’Sullivan, Cathryn A. Roper, Margaret M. Singh, Karam B. Thatcher, Louise F. Front Mol Biosci Molecular Biosciences Streptomyces are soil-borne Actinobacteria known to produce a wide range of enzymes, phytohormones, and metabolites including antifungal compounds, making these microbes fitting for use as biocontrol agents in agriculture. In this study, a plant reporter gene construct comprising the biotic stress-responsive glutathione S-transferase promoter GSTF7 linked to a luciferase output (GSTF7:luc) was used to screen a collection of Actinobacteria candidates for manipulation of plant biotic stress responses and their potential as biocontrol agents. We identified a Streptomyces isolate (KB001) as a strong candidate and demonstrated successful protection against two necrotrophic fungal pathogens, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Rhizoctonia solani, but not against a bacterial pathogen (Pseudomonas syringe). Treatment of Arabidopsis plants with either KB001 microbial culture or its secreted compounds induced a range of stress and defense response-related genes like pathogenesis-related (PR) and hormone signaling pathways. Global transcriptomic analysis showed that both treatments shared highly induced expression of reactive oxygen species and auxin signaling pathways at 6 and 24 h posttreatment, while some other responses were treatment specific. This study demonstrates that GSTF7 is a suitable marker for the rapid and preliminary screening of beneficial bacteria and selection of candidates with potential for application as biocontrols in agriculture, including the Streptomyces KB001 that was characterized here, and could provide protection against necrotrophic fungal pathogens. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8446517/ /pubmed/34540894 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.708530 Text en Copyright © 2021 Belt, Foley, O’Sullivan, Roper, Singh and Thatcher. https://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 | Molecular Biosciences Belt, Katharina Foley, Rhonda C. O’Sullivan, Cathryn A. Roper, Margaret M. Singh, Karam B. Thatcher, Louise F. A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens |
title | A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens |
title_full | A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens |
title_fullStr | A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens |
title_full_unstemmed | A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens |
title_short | A Plant Stress-Responsive Bioreporter Coupled With Transcriptomic Analysis Allows Rapid Screening for Biocontrols of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens |
title_sort | plant stress-responsive bioreporter coupled with transcriptomic analysis allows rapid screening for biocontrols of necrotrophic fungal pathogens |
topic | Molecular Biosciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540894 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.708530 |
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