| Title: | Production of plant growth modulating volatiles is widespread among rhizosphere bacteria and strongly depends on culture conditions |
| Author(s): | Blom D; Fabbri C; Connor EC; Schiestl FP; Klauser DR; Boller T; Eberl L; Weisskopf L; |
| Address: | "Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland" |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02582.x |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1462-2920 (Electronic) 1462-2912 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Recent studies have suggested that bacterial volatiles play an important role in bacterial-plant interactions. However, few reports of bacterial species that produce plant growth modulating volatiles have been published, raising the question whether this is just an anecdotal phenomenon. To address this question, we performed a large screen of strains originating from the soil for volatile-mediated effects on Arabidopsis thaliana. All of the 42 strains tested showed significant volatile-mediated plant growth modulation, with effects ranging from plant death to a sixfold increase in plant biomass. The effects of bacterial volatiles were highly dependent on the cultivation medium and the inoculum quantity. GC-MS analysis of the tested strains revealed over 130 bacterial volatile compounds. Indole, 1-hexanol and pentadecane were selected for further studies because they appeared to promote plant growth. None of these compounds triggered a typical defence response, using production of ethylene and of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as read-outs. However, when plants were challenged with the flg-22 epitope of bacterial flagellin, a prototypical elicitor of defence responses, additional exposure to the volatiles reduced the flg-22-induced production of ethylene and ROS in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that bacterial volatiles may act as effectors to inhibit the plant's defence response" |
| Keywords: | Alkanes/chemistry Arabidopsis/drug effects/growth & development/*microbiology Bacteria/*chemistry Culture Media Ethylenes/metabolism Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Hexanols/chemistry Indoles/chemistry Plant Growth Regulators/pharmacology Reactive Ox; |
| Notes: | "MedlineBlom, D Fabbri, C Connor, E C Schiestl, F P Klauser, D R Boller, T Eberl, L Weisskopf, L eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2011/09/22 Environ Microbiol. 2011 Nov; 13(11):3047-58. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02582.x. Epub 2011 Sep 20" |
