根瘤菌培养基的优化和剂型的比较研究*

以费氏中华根瘤菌 (Sinorhizobiumfredii)HN0 1和大豆慢生根瘤菌 (Bradyrhizobiumjaponi cum)USDA1 1 0作为供试菌 ,进行YMA、TY、SM、PA和BSE等 5种培养基的比较试验。结果表明 ,两种菌都在BSE中生长速度最快。对USDA1 1 0进行培养基的优化试验 ,筛选出一种能将生长速度提高 2倍左右的优化培养基。制作了供试菌的固体、液体与冻干菌剂 ,结果表明在 3种供试固体剂型载体中 ,草炭要优于蛭石 ,蛭石又优于珍珠岩。供试菌在两种液体剂型中的存活率和活菌数均较高 ,氮气或真空剂型对存活率的影响没有明显的差别。两种冻干菌剂的结果表明 ,供试菌在冻干过程中的死亡率较高 ,液氮冻干优于常规冻干。冻干菌剂在储存条件下的存活率为 : 2 0℃ >4℃ >室温     

费氏中华根瘤菌（Sinorhizobium fredii）的多样性研究

用大豆品种Willimas和黑龙33从多年种植大豆未接种根瘤菌的土壤中集大豆极瘤菌,从分离株中选出50株费氏中华根瘤菌,对供试菌株的培养特性,生长速度,耐酸,耐碱性,生长最终pH值,天然抗药性,CN源利用,刚果红吸收强度,产黑色素能力和质粒图谱类型进行了系统的比较研究,并通过聚类分析得到树状图谱,证实了不同土壤中费氏中华根瘤菌的多样性。     

katG基因在豌豆根瘤菌抗氧化中的功能

摘要:【目的】细菌中过氧化物/过氧化氢酶KatG参与活性氧(ROS)的解毒过程,从而防止其对细菌生长伤害,本文研究根瘤菌中katG基因的抗氧化功能对豌豆根瘤菌3841生长及共生固氮的影响。【方法】通过基因敲除、遗传互补和对菌株的抗氧化和共生能力分析,系统地探究了根瘤菌中katG基因的功能。【结果】katG基因突变不影响菌株在自生培养条件下生长状况,但H2O2短时间处理导致突变株的存活率显著下降。实时荧光定量RT-PCR结果显示,H2O2不能诱导豌豆根瘤菌3841katG基因的表达。进一步研究发现突变体中katG基因缺失能显著提高抗氧化基因ohrB的表达,而降低grxC基因的表达。植物盆栽实验发现,katG突变虽然对根瘤菌共生固氮能力和竞争结瘤能力均无影响,但katG在类菌体中表达显著下调。同时,katG突变显著影响了根瘤菌在植物根圈中的定殖能力。【结论】研究表明katG虽对豌豆根瘤菌自生和共生固氮无明显影响,但在抗氧化和根圈定殖中起重要作用,外源H2O2对katG的表达无诱导作用,但katG调节ohrB和grxC等抗氧化基因的表达,从而在抗氧化和共生中发挥作用。     

新疆豆科短命植物弯果胡卢巴根瘤与根瘤菌的特性

[目的]对弯果胡卢巴根瘤增殖特性、根瘤显微结构、根瘤菌遗传聚类以及根瘤菌各种抗性进行观察、分析和鉴定.[方法]分别利用不同基质培养、石蜡切片和树脂半超薄切片以及16S rRNA基因序列扩增和序列分析等技术方法对弯果胡卢巴根瘤和根瘤菌进行研究.[结果]①在混合土(养花土:白杨林下土:沙土=1:1:1)中有明显结瘤且植株结荚最多,多数根瘤呈掌状和姜形;②显微结构显示根瘤由表及里分为表层、皮层、维管束、已侵染细胞与未侵染细胞几部分;③对根瘤菌16S rRNA基因全长序列(1377bp)测序并分析,结果显示其与苜蓿中华根瘤菌16S rRNA基因的同源性达99.9%;④根瘤菌抗逆性鉴定结果显示,在温度为4℃～60℃(20 Min)、pH值为6.0～12.0、NaCl浓度为0%～2%的范围内根瘤菌均可正常生长;低浓度的卡那霉素、链霉素及头孢霉素等抗生素(25μg/mL,)就能完全抑制根瘤菌的生长,但仍能在100μg/mL的氨苄青霉素中正常生长.[结论]弯果胡卢巴结瘤需要较好的土壤及通气条件;根瘤簇生,瘤内含大量被根瘤菌侵染的细胞;弯果胡卢巴根瘤菌与苜蓿中华根瘤菌(sinorhizobium meliloti,)同源性最高,是一类较耐高温和强碱的菌株.     

用AFLP技术检测慢生型花生根瘤菌竞争结瘤的研究

以 5株慢生型花生根瘤菌和天府 3号花生为材料 ,用 AFLP技术研究了慢生型花生根瘤菌 Spr2 - 9、Spr3- 3、Spr3- 5、Spr4- 5和 Spr7- 1的遗传特性和竞争结瘤能力。结果显示 ,供试条件下 ,传代次数对菌株的遗传性状无明显影响 ,2 8℃培养条件下 ,花生根瘤菌连续传 96代 ,其 AFLP指纹未发生明显变化 ;37℃培养 ,仅 Spr3- 3和 Spr3- 5能够存活并正常生长 ,其 AFLP指纹也未发生明显改变 ,然而其它菌株不能生长。将供试慢生型花生根瘤菌分别接种天府 3号花生 ,光照培养 30 d后 ,随机各取 4个根瘤 ,从根瘤中提取类菌体 DNA进行 AFLP分析 ,各根瘤类菌体 DNA的 AFLP指纹图谱与该菌株纯培养物 AFLP指纹相同。将 5个菌株混合接种天府 3号花生 ,不同菌株的占瘤率存在差异 ,Spr3- 3和 Spr3- 5的竞争结瘤能力最强 ,两菌株的占瘤率之和为 85.4% ;Spr4- 5的占瘤率为 1 2 .2 % ;Spr7- 1为 2 .4% ;而 Spr2 - 9的竞争结瘤能力最差。本试验结果说明 ,AFLP技术用于根瘤菌生态和竞争结瘤能力研究 ,具有下列优点 :简易、快速、准确 ;直接取豆科植物的根瘤提取 DNA,进行原位研究 ;在不改变菌株遗传特性 ,即不使用突变株的前提下 ,可以直接测定已知菌株的竞争结瘤能力     

用AFLP技术检测慢生型花生根瘤茵竞争结瘤的研究

以5株慢生型花生根瘤菌和天府3号花生为材料,用AFLP技术研究了慢生型花生根瘤菌Spr2—9、Spr3—3、Spr3—5、Spr4—5和Spr7—1的遗传特性和竞争结瘤能力。结果显示,供试条件下,传代次数对菌株的遗传性状无明显影响,28C培养条件下,花生根瘤菌连续传96代,其AFLP指纹未发生明显变化;37C培养,仅Spr3—3和Spr3—5能够存活并正常生长,其AFLP指纹也未发生明显改变,然而其它菌株不能生长。将供试慢生型花生根瘤菌分别接种天府3号花生。光照培养30d后,随机各取4个根瘤,从根瘤中提取类菌体DNA进行AFLP分析,各根瘤类菌体DNA的AFLP指纹图谱与该菌株纯培养物AFLP指纹相同。将5个菌株混合接种天府3号花生,不同菌株的占瘤率存在差异,Spr3—3和Spr3—5的竞争结瘤能力最强,两菌株的占瘤率之和为85．4％;Spr4—5的占瘤率为12．2％;Spr7—1为2．4％;而Spr2—9的竞争结瘤能力最差。本试验结果说明,AFLP技术用于根瘤菌生态和竞争结瘤能力研究,具有下列优点：简易、快速、准确;直接取豆科植物的根瘤提取DNA,进行原位研究;在不改变菌株遗传特性,即不使用突变株的前提下,可以直接测定已知菌株的竞争结瘤能力。     

哈茨木霉的培养及其对烟草疫霉生长的抑制研究*

哈茨木霉是一类重要的植病生防因子。哈茨木霉TH-1分别在PDA培养基、麦芽糖培养基、查氏培养基和琼脂培养基上培养均能产孢,其中PDA培养基为最适培养基。PDA培养基上,菌丝生长适宜温度27.5℃~35℃,最适温度32.5℃,产孢最适温度27.5℃。菌丝生长适宜pH值为3~7,产孢适宜pH值为5~9,生长与产孢最适pH值为5。光照对菌丝生长影响不大但明显影响菌株的产孢数量,光照时间越长产孢量越大。对峙培养试验表明TH-1明显抑制疫霉菌的生长速率,其无菌滤液明显抑制烟草疫霉菌游动孢子的萌发,并抑制游动孢子芽管     

光对马卡愈伤组织生长、丛生芽诱导和存活的影响

马卡属于十字花科独行菜属,具有极高的营养价值和药用价值。在快繁过程中,光对马卡愈伤组织生长,丛生芽的诱导和存活有显著的影响。绿光和蓝光既不利于愈伤组织的生长也不利于丛生芽的诱导和存活。白光、红光和黄光能明显促进愈伤组织的生长,在这些光照条件下丛生芽的诱导率为60%～80%,丛生芽存活率为29%～36%。适当延长光照时间可提高丛生芽的存活率,合适的光照时间为16h/d。但是过强的光照可使丛生芽的存活率降低,合适的光照强度为24～41μmol/m2.s。     

青藏高原横断山区饲用黄芪根瘤菌的抗逆性及系统发育分析

分离纯化青藏高原横断山区(四川甘孜藏族自治州和阿坝藏族羌族自治州)原生野生饲用黄芪根瘤菌,为优良菌株的筛选提供种质资源.采用纯培养法从该地区部分饲用黄芪植物根瘤中分离纯化根瘤菌;通过16SrDNA序列同源性分析确定菌株的系统发育地位;通过测定菌株的耐盐性、初始pH生长范围及生长温度范围来分析饲用黄芪根瘤菌的抗逆性.从青...     

异叶银合欢根瘤菌的分离和特性

从异叶银合欢K(164)和K(794)的根瘤中各分离到一株根瘤菌,并且,对K164根瘤菌的形态特征和生理生化特性进行了研究。K(164)根瘤菌在平板上培养2天,菌落呈圆形,灰白色,直径约1．2mm;革兰氏染色呈阴性,无芽孢,有美膜,两根极生鞭毛;杆菌大小为2．2×0．89μm,增代时间为1．69小时,属快生型;最适生长温度为30℃,在39℃持续2天不能存活,在20℃以下不能生长;不耐盐,较耐酸,在pH4.5～6．6范围内均能生长,但不耐碱;对庆大霉素和青霉素敏感;对供试的10种糖都能利用,不液化明胶,不利用淀粉,B．T．B试验未变色,不能进行3-酮基乳糖反应,硝酸盐反应呈阳性,石蕊牛奶试验能胨化、还原、产碱,牛肉膏蛋白胨培养生长差,能利用柠檬酸盐;在自生条件下具有吸H2酶活性;回接后结瘤率达100％,根瘤具有固氮酶和吸H2酶活性。     

Growth temperature regulation of host-specific modifications of rhizobial lipo-chitin oligosaccharides: the function of nodX is temperature regulated

Lipo-chitin oligosaccharides (LCOs) are usually produced and isolated for structural analysis from bacteria cultured under laboratory rather than field conditions. We have studied the influence of bacterial growth temperature on the LCO structures produced by different Rhizobium leguminosarum strains, using thin-layer chromatographic, high-performance liquid chromatographic, and mass spectrometric analyses. Wild-type R. leguminosarum bv. viciae A1 was shown to produce larger relative amounts of nodX-mediated, acetylated LCOs at 12 degrees C than at 28 degrees C, indicating that the activity of nodX (a gene encoding an LCO O-acetyl transferase) is temperature dependent. Interestingly, symbiotic resistance genes sym1 and sym2 found in primitive pea cultivars are also temperature sensitive, only being active at low temperatures, at which they block nodulation by R. leguminosarum bv. viciae strains lacking nodX. We therefore propose that the gene-for-gene relationship between plant and bacterium has a temperature-sensitive mechanism as an adaptation to environmental conditions. An R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain was also shown to produce larger relative amounts of nodX-mediated, acetylated LCOs at 12 degrees C than at 28 degrees C. The major components synthesized by the two strains are produced at both temperatures but in different relative amounts, while some minor components are only produced at one of the two temperatures.     

Salt tolerance of Rhizobium species in broth cultures

Salt tolerance of five rhizobia strains was examined in broth cultures. Five levels of NaCl concentration were used and the optical density was taken as a measure for the vigour of bacterial growth. Rhizobium leguminosarum and R. meliloti were tolerant to high levels of salinity and growth curves in saline broth showed a similar pattern to the control level. Rhizobium japonicum, cowpea Rhizobium, and R. trifolii were intolerant to salt and showed a strong growth retardation with increasing salt concentration. Growth was inhibited at high levels of salinity. It is suggested that rhizobia sensitivity to salts may be partly responsible to the inhibition of nitrogen fixation by legumes growing under salt stress.     

Strain Identification in Rhizobium Using Intrinsic Antibiotic Resistance

The variation in intrinsic resistance to low levels of eight antibiotics was used as an identifying characteristic for 26 Rhizobium leguminosarum strains. The pattern of antibiotic resistance of each strain was a stable property by which rhizobia isolated from root nodules of inoculated Pisum sativum could be recognized. The antibiotic tests for strain identification with R. leguminosarum were applied to R. phaseoli . It was necessary to include reference cultures in tests with this species, as the tests most suitable for the R. leguminosarum strains showed some variability with R. phaseoli .     

Lectin-enhanced accumulation of manganese-limited Rhizobium leguminosarum cells on pea root hair tips.

The ability of Rhizobium leguminosarum 248 to attach to developing Pisum sativum root hairs was investigated during various phases of bacterial growth in yeast extract-mannitol medium. Direct cell counting revealed that growth of the rhizobia transiently stopped three successive times during batch culture in yeast extract-mannitol medium. These interruptions of growth, as well as the simultaneous autoagglutination of the bacteria, appeared to be caused by manganese limitation. Rhizobia harvested during the transient phases of growth inhibition appeared to have a better attachment ability than did exponentially growing rhizobia. The attachment characteristics of these manganese-limited rhizobia were compared with those of carbon-limited rhizobia (G. Smit, J. W. Kijne, and B. J. J. Lugtenberg, J. Bacteriol. 168:821-827, 1986, and J. Bacteriol. 169:4294-4301, 1987). In contrast to the attachment of carbon-limited cells, accumulation of manganese-limited rhizobia (cap formation) was already in full progress after 10 min of incubation; significantly delayed by 3-O-methyl-D-glucose, a pea lectin haptenic monosaccharide; partially resistant to sodium chloride; and partially resistant to pretreatment of the bacteria with cellulase. Binding of single bacteria to the root hair tips was not inhibited by 3-O-methyl-D-glucose. Whereas attachment of single R. leguminosarum cells to the surface of pea root hair tips seemed to be similar for both carbon- and manganese-limited cells, the subsequent accumulation of manganese-limited rhizobia at the root hair tips is apparently accelerated by pea lectin molecules. Moreover, spot inoculation tests with rhizobia grown under various culture conditions indicated that differences in attachment between manganese- and carbon-limited R. leguminosarum cells are correlated with a significant difference in infectivity in that manganese-limited rhizobia, in contrast to carbon-limited rhizobia, are infective. This growth-medium-dependent behavior offers and explanation for the seemingly conflicting data on the involvement of host plant lectins in attachment of rhizobia to root hairs of leguminous plants. Sym plasmid-borne genes do not play a role in manganese-limitation-induced attachment of R. leguminosarum.     

A Rhizobium leguminosarum mutant defective in symbiotic iron acquisition.

Iron acquisition by symbiotic Rhizobium spp. is essential for nitrogen fixation in the legume root nodule symbiosis. Rhizobium leguminosarum 116, an ineffective mutant strain with a defect in iron acquisition, was isolated after nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis of the effective strain 1062. The pop-1 mutation in strain 116 imparted to it a complex phenotype, characteristic of iron deficiency: the accumulation of porphyrins (precursors of hemes) so that colonies emitted a characteristic pinkish-red fluorescence when excited by UV light, reduced levels of cytochromes b and c, and wild-type growth on high-iron media but low or no growth in low-iron broth and on solid media supplemented with the iron scavenger dipyridyl. Several iron(III)-solubilizing agents, such as citrate, hydroxyquinoline, and dihydroxybenzoate, stimulated growth of 116 on low-iron solid medium; anthranilic acid, the R. leguminosarum siderophore, inhibited low-iron growth of 116. The initial rate of 55Fe uptake by suspensions of iron-starved 116 cells was 10-fold less than that of iron-starved wild-type cells. Electron microscopic observations revealed no morphological abnormalities in the small, white nodules induced by 116. Nodule cortical cells were filled with vesicles containing apparently normal bacteroids. No premature degeneration of bacteroids or of plant cell organelles was evident. We mapped pop-1 by R plasmid-mediated conjugation and recombination to the ade-27-rib-2 region of the R. leguminosarum chromosome. No segregation of pop-1 and the symbiotic defect was observed among the recombinants from these crosses. Cosmid pKN1, a pLAFR1 derivative containing a 24-kilobase-pair fragment of R. leguminosarum DNA, conferred on 116 the ability to grow on dipyridyl medium and to fix nitrogen symbiotically. These results indicate that the insert cloned in pKN1 encodes an element of the iron acquisition system of R. leguminosarum that is essential for symbiotic nitrogen fixation.     

Cloning and characterization of ce/8A gene from Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii 1536

AIMS: To isolate the cellulase gene from Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii 1536. METHODS AND RESULTS: By the shot-gun method a clone (cel8A) harbouring 3.1 kb genomic DNA fragment from R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii 1536 was obtained. The cel8A gene coded 348 amino acids and it belongs to the glycosyl hydrolase family 8. The molecular mass of Cel8A protein induced from Escherichia coli DH5alpha, appeared to be 35 kDa. The optimum pH and optimum temperature was 7.0, and about 30 degrees C for its enzymatic activity respectively. CONCLUSIONS: R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii 1536 had cel8A gene having an open reading frame of 1047 bp coded for the activity of hydrolyzation of carboxymethyl cellulose. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: The production of celluloytic enzyme by R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii was confirmed, which would play specific roles in rhizobia. Future study should focus on its role in the infection and nodulation phenomena.     

Distribution of O-acetyl groups in the exopolysaccharide synthesized by Rhizobium leguminosarum strains is not determined by the Sym plasmid

The patterns of O-acetylation of the exopolysaccharide (EPS) from the Sym plasmid-cured derivatives of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain LPR5, R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain ANU843 and R. leguminosarum bv. viciae strain 248 were determined by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy. Beside a site indicative of the chromosomal background, these strains have one site of O-acetylation in common, namely residue b of the repeating unit. The O-acetyl esterification pattern of EPS of the Sym plasmid-cured derivatives of strains LPR5, ANU843, and 248 was not altered by the introduction of a R. leguminosarum bv. viciae Sym plasmid or a R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii Sym plasmid. The induction of nod gene expression by growth of the bacteria in the presence of Vicia sativa plants or by the presence of the flavonoid naringenin, produced no significant changes in either amount or sites of O-acetyl substitution. Furthermore, no such changes were found in the EPS from a Rhizobium strain in which the nod genes are constitutively expressed. The substitution pattern of the exopolysaccharide from R. leguminosarum is, therefore, determined by the bacterial genome and is not influenced by genes present on the Sym plasmid. This conclusion is inconsistent with the suggestion of Philip-Hollingsworth et al. (Philip-Hollingsworth, S., Hollingsworth, R. I., Dazzo, F. B., Djordjevic, M. A., and Rolfe, B. G. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 5710-5714) that nod genes of R. leguminosarum bv. trifolii, by influencing the acetylation pattern of EPS, determine the host specificity of nodulation.