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Occurrence of Diversified N-acyl Homoserine Lactone Mediated Biofilm-Forming Bacteria in Rice Rhizoplane

Occurrence of Diversified N-acyl Homoserine Lactone Mediated Biofilm-Forming Bacteria in Rice Rhizoplane

Viveka Balasundararajan, Balachandar Dananjeyan

J Basic Microbiol. 2019 Oct;59(10):1031-1039.

PMID: 31402466

Abstract:

Quorum sensing (QS)-mediated biofilm-forming rhizobacteria are indispensable due to their competitiveness in the crop rhizosphere. In the present work, we have reported on the occurrence of diversified bacterial species capable of producing N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) as the QS signal in the roots of a rice plant grown under field conditions. The AHL-producing bacteria were directly isolated from the rice root by the biosensor reporter (Chromobacterium violaceum CV026) overlay method and characterized for biofilm production by the microtiter plate method. A total of 48 QS-positive bacterial isolates were purified from different aged (7, 20, 24, 26, and 36 days) rice seedlings. The in vitro biofilm production and genetic diversity as revealed by BOX-PCR fingerprinting showed high variability among the isolates. Most of the best biofilm-forming isolates produced a N-butyryl dl-homoserine lactone (a C4-AHL type) signal in the medium. The 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequence of these putative elite isolates identified that they were close to Aeromonas hydrophila (QS7-4; QS36-2), A. enteropelongenes (QS20-8), A. veronii (QS36-3), Enterobacter sp. (QS20-11), Klebsiella pneumoniae (QS24-6), Kosakonia cowanii (QS24-21), Providentia rettigeri (QS24-2), Sphingomonas aquatilis (QS24-17), and Pseudomonas sihuiensis (QS24-20). These strains profusely colonized the rice root upon inoculation and formed biofilms on the surface of the root under gnotobiotic conditions. Developing inoculants from these strains would ensure competitive colonization on the rhizoplane of the crop through their biofilm and thereby improve plant growth and health.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP76924953	N-(β-Ketocaproyl)-DL-homoserine lactone		76924-95-3	Price

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