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Paenibacillus
yonginensis
DCY84
T
induces
changes
in
Arabidopsis
thaliana
gene
expression
against
aluminum,
drought,
and
salt
stress
Johan
Sukweenadhi
a,1,
Yeon-Ju
Kim
a,∗,1,
Eul-Su
Choi
b,
Sung-Cheol
Koh
c,
Sang-Won
Lee
d,
Yu-Jin
Kim
a,
Deok
Chun
Yang
a,e,∗aDepartmentofOrientalMedicinalMaterial&Processing,KyungHeeUniversity,RepublicofKorea
bGuyeonggiDoAgriculturalResearch&ExtensionServices,Gyeonggi-do,RepublicofKorea
cDepartmentofEnvironmentalEngineering,KoreaMaritimeandOceanUniversity,Busan,RepublicofKorea
dDepartmentofPlantMolecularSystemsBiotechnologyandCropBiotechInstitute,KyungHeeUniversity,RepublicofKorea
eGraduateSchoolofBiotechnologyandGinsengBank,KyungHeeUniversity,RepublicofKorea
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Articlehistory:
Received11December2014
Receivedinrevisedform9January2015 Accepted11January2015
Availableonline19January2015
Keywords:
Plantgrowth-promotingbacteria
Paenibacillus
Saltstress Droughtstress Aluminumstress
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Currentagriculturalproductionmethods,forexampletheimproperuseofchemicalfertilizersand pesti-cides,createmanyhealthandenvironmentalproblems.Useofplantgrowth-promotingbacteria(PGPB) foragriculturalbenefitsisincreasingworldwideandalsoappearstobeatrendforthefuture.Thereis possibilitytodevelopmicrobialinoculantsforuseinagriculturalbiotechnology,basedonthese benefi-cialplant–microbeinteractions.Forthisstudy,tenbacterialstrainswereisolatedfromYonginforestsoil forwhichinvitroplant-growthpromotingtraitscreenings,suchasindoleaceticacid(IAA)production, aphosphatesolubilizationtest,andasiderophoreproductiontestwereusedtoselecttwoPGPB candi-dates.ArabidopsisthalianaplantswereinoculatedwithPaenibacillusyonginensisDCY84TandMicrococcus
yunnanensisPGPB7.Saltstress,droughtstressandheavymetal(aluminum)stresschallengesindicated thatP.yonginensisDCY84T-inoculatedplantsweremoreresistantthancontrolplants.AtRSA1,AtVQ9and
AtWRKY8wereusedasthesalinityresponsivegenes.TheAtERD15,AtRAB18,andAtLT178wereselected tocheckA.thalianaresponsestodroughtstress.AluminumstressresponsewascheckedusingAtAIP, AtALS3andAtALMT1.TheqRT-PCRresultsindicatedthatP.yonginensisDCY84Tcanpromoteplant
tol-eranceagainstsalt,drought,andaluminumstress.P.yonginensisDCY84Talsoshowedpositiveresults
duringinvitrocompatibilitytestingandvirulenceassayagainstX.oryzaepv.oryzaePhilippinerace 6(PXO99).BettergerminationratesandgrowthparameterswerealsorecordedfortheP.yonginensis DCY84TChuchungcultivarriceseedwhichwasgrownoncoastalsoilcollectedfromSuncheon.Basedon
theseresults,P.yonginensisDCY84TcanbeusedasapromisingPGPBisolateforcropimprovement.
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1. Introduction
Plantgrowth-promotingbacteria(PGPB)includespecieswhich formspecificsymbioticrelationshipswithplants(e.g.,Rhizobiaspp. andFrankiaspp.),thosewhicharefree-living,bacterialendophytes whichcancolonizesomeoraportionofaplant’sinteriortissues, andcyanobacteria(Bashanetal.2004).PGPBarebacterialstrains isolatedfromdiverseenvironmentswhichareabletobeneficially
∗ Corresponding authors at: Department of Oriental Medicinal Material& Processing,KyungHeeUniversity,RepublicofKorea.Tel.:+82312012100; fax:+82312022688.
E-mailaddresses:yeonjukim@khu.ac.kr(Y.-J.Kim),deokchunyang@khu.ac.kr
(D.C.Yang).
1 Theseauthorscontributedequallytothiswork.
affectmanyparametersofplantgrowthandyield,directlyor indi-rectly(Diaz-ZoritaandFernandez-Canigia2009).Plantgrowthis directlypromotedbyPGPBeitherbyfacilitatingnutritionuptake orbymodulatingtheplanthormonelevels.Indirectpromotionof plantgrowthoccursviaPGPBsdecreasingtheinhibitoryeffects ofvariouspathogenicagentsonplantgrowthand development (i.e.,actingasabiocontrolagent).Theprotectionistypically mani-festedasbothareductioninabioticstresssymptomsandinhibition ofpathogengrowth(bioticstress),which canbephenotypically similartopathogen-inducedsystemic acquiredresistance(SAR) or inductionof systemic resistance(ISR,Ross1961).ThisPGPB effecthasbeendemonstratedin differentplantspecies,suchas bean, carnation, cucumber, radish, tobacco, tomato, and in the modelplantA.thaliana(VanLoonetal.1998).Althoughitiswell knownthatSARorISRtriggeredbyPGPBconfersresistanceagainst pathogen-inducedplantdiseases,afewpublishedreportssuggest