EP0326545A1 - Alteration of plant response to microorganisms - Google Patents
Alteration of plant response to microorganismsInfo
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- A01N—PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
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- This invention relates to a composition and ' method for altering the response of plants to microorganisms.
- this invention relates to the alteration of the response of plants to microorganisms of the genus Rhizobium, however it is to be understood that in its broadest aspect the invention extends to alteration of the response to other microorganisms, including other bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- composition for use in altering the response of plants to microorganisms which comprises the exopolysaccharide(s) derived from bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, or oligopoly- saccharide(s) consisting of or containing one or more of the repeat-units of said exopolysaccharide(s) .
- this invention provides a method for altering the response of plants to microorganisms, which. ' comprises the step of treating said plants with an effective amount of a composition» as broadly described above, either before, after or simultaneously with exposure of said plants to the microorganisms.
- the composition comprises the exopoly ⁇ saccharide derived from Rhizobium sp. strain NGR 234 or Rhizobium trifolii or derivatives thereof, characterised by having an oligopolysaccharide repeat-unit as set out in Figure la or lb attached hereto.
- this invention is based on the use of bacterial exopolysaccharide(s) or oligosaccharide(s) derived therefrom, for example, for the regulation of the plants' defences against invading organisms to achieve higher crop yields, or to produce more efficient nitrogen fixation and hence reduce production costs.
- composition of the present invention may, for example, be formulated as a spray, dust or powder with conventional horticulturally- or agriculturally-acceptable diluents or carriers for topical administration to the plants, particularly young plants, to influence or affect their response to invading organisms.
- exopolysaccharides A characteristic of many wild-type strains of Rhizobium is their ability to produce copious amounts of exopolysaccharides and form mucoid colonies. It has been proposed that these exo ⁇ polysaccharides have important functions in the plant- Rhi-zobium symbiosis, such as determination of host specificity. As broadly outlined above, it has now been discovered that these exopolysaccharides, or oligosaccharides consisting of or containing one or more repeat-units thereof, can be used to affect the response of plants to microorganisms.
- (a) is the structure of the acidic oligosaccharide repeat-unit of ANU 280 (a derivative of Rhizobium strain NGR234) ;
- (b) is the structure of the acidic oligosaccharide repeat-unit of ANU 843 (a strain of R.trifolii) .
- the bacteria are carried toward the root cortex inside the infection thread where they actively divide. Shortly before, or concurrent with the initiation of infection thread synthesis, cortical cell division is thought to be induced by Rhizobium strain, presumably by diffusable substances released by the bacterium (Bauer, 1981; Bauer et.al. 1985) .
- Rhizobium-legume interaction Another feature of the Rhizobium-legume interaction is the host specificity displayed.
- Fast- growing ("temperate") Rhizobium strains for example, usually nodulate only one plant species effectively, whilst slow-growing Bradyrhizobium strains typically have a broad host-range.
- the fast-growing Rhizobium strain NGR234 (Trinick 1980) possesses an unusually extensive host-range which includes a variety of tropical and temperate legumes as well as the non-legume tropical tree Parasponia andersonii (Trinick and Galbraith 1980) .
- Rhizobium bacteria characteristically produce large amounts of exopoly- saccharides (EPS) on various laboratory media and the colonies formed are mucoid (Muc ) in appearance.
- EPS exopoly- saccharides
- Rhizobium polysaccharides particularly EPS and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) have been postulated to be involved in the early recognition steps between the plant and the bacterium including specific adhesion to the root hair surfaces (Dazzo et.al. 1978) and the dtermination of host-specificity (Dudman 1977) . Whilst results concerning the true role of EPS remain controversial, a good correlation exists between the ability of Rhizobium strains to produce normal EPS on laboratory media and the ability to produce nitrogen-fixing nodules (Fix ) on legume plants. A number of transposon (Tn5) induced Muc " mutants of
- R.trifolii (Chakravorty et.al. 1982) and NGR234 (Chen et.al. 1985) are still able to infect host legumes (although often poorly) but are unable to initiate nitrogen-fixing nodules. Examination of nodules induced by Muc mutants of R.trifolii and strain
- NGR234 by electron microscopy have shown that nodules on some plant species are poorly developed, contain fewer dividing cells and intracellular bacteria and little or no indication of the presence of bacteroids (Chakravorty et.al. 1982; Chen et.al. 1985). In contrast, the majority of so-called calcoflor-dark (Muc ⁇ ) mutants in R.meliloti were unable to induce detectable root hair curling or infection thread formation on alfalfa plants thus indicating that EPS is involved in nodule invasion as opposed to nodule formation (Leigh et.al. 1985) .
- the Muc + , Nod " strain SU847 has an extensive deletion in the native Sym plas id which removes many essential nodulation and nitrogen fixing genes.
- the Muc Nod strain inoculated alone onto clover plants formed poorly developed nodules which were unable to fix nitrogen.
- a mixed inoculum containing these two strains could induce a proportion of fully-functional nitrogen-fixing nodules on clovers. No evidence of genetic transfer was detected between the two strains (Rolfe et.al. 1980) .
- Muc mutant strains of ANU280 and Sym plasmid-cured derivatives of both strains ANU280 and ANU843 were grown on BMM agar plates for 2 days. Suspensions of both strains were grown to the same optical density and mixed in an approximate 1:1 ratio before inoculating onto sterile 3 day old Leucaena seedlings. Isolation and purification of Polysaccharides
- EPS was isolated by using an Amicon DC10L hollow-fibre filtration system fitted with a O.l ⁇ filter and further purified by precipitation as the cetyltri- m hy1ammonium (CTAB) salt as described previously (Djordjevic et.al., 1986a). Acidic oligosaccharide was similarly isolated by hollow-fibre filtration using a (H10P3-20) filter.
- Acidic oligosaccharide was not precipitated as the CTAB salt.
- Crude oligo- saccharides were fractioned on a DEAE-Sephadex A25 column and analysed for hexose and uronic-acid as described previously (Djordjevic et.al. 1986) .
- Sterile seedlings germinated on BMM agar were transferred to Fahraeus agar and allowed to settle to the agar surface for 16hrs. Aliquots (5 or 10 ⁇ l) of stock solutions (5mg/ml) of EPS or its derived
- ..oligosaccharide were applied along the length of 3 day-old seedlings. These acidic saccharides were added either simultaneously or 24hr before or after inoculation with Rhizobium bacteria. Plant assays
- Macroptilium atrbpurpureum DC
- Urban siratro
- Trifolii repens L
- c.v. 5826 white clover
- Leucaena leucocephala Wit. var peru was tested for nodulation according to the method of Chen et.al. (1985) .
- Mutants ANU2811, ANU2820 and ANU2840 are Tn5- induced mutants of strain NGR234 defective in exopoly ⁇ saccharide synthesis. These strains form non-mucoid (Muc ) colonies on all laboratory media and have defective symbiotic phenotypes (properties) on different legume plants (Chen et.al., 1985) .
- the Tn5 * insertion in these strains has been shown to reside in different genomic DNA fragments (Table 1) . Little or no uronic-acid containing saccharides could be detected by colourimetric analysis of both retentates obtained by hollow-fibre filtration.
- Muc mutants produce grossly disorganised callus-like structures on the roots of Leucaena plants which -do not fix atmospheric nitrogen whereas the parent strain induces indeterminate, nitrogen-fixing nodules (Chen et.al., 1985) .
- Muc mutants ANU2820 and ANU2811 produce poor, non-nitrogen fixing nodules, while strain ANU2840 forms nitrogen-fixing nodules (Chen et.al., 1985) .
- Muc strain ANU2840 fails to produce any detectable level of acidic oligosaccharide
- colimetric analysis of the O.l ⁇ m retentate indicates that a small amount of acidic EPS may be produced.
- this apparent low level of uronic-acid containing material in the O.l ⁇ m retentate may be an artifact.
- the Sym plasmid cured derivative of NGR234, (ANU265) produces Muc colonies, but is unable to initiate any detectable symbiotic response on any legume since all the essential nodulation genes as well as the nitrogenase genes have been shown to be deleted from this strain (Morrison et.al., 1983).
- An NMR analysis, of the isolated oligosaccharide repeat-unit from strain ANU265 showed that its
- the isolated bacteria retained their original colony morphology (Muc , for ANU265, and Muc " for the mutant strains) , antibiotic resistant markers (Sp r for ANU265 and Rf , Sm r and m r for the Muc mutants) and their original nodulation - phenotypes on Leucaena plants, thus indicating that no detectable genetic transfer had occurred between these strains.
- a foreign Rhizobium strain was used instead of ANU265.
- the Sym plasmid cured R.trifolii strain ANU845 was mixed with the Muc " mutant ANU2840. Nitrogen-fixing nodules were not produced (Table 2) . Effect of the addition of purified EPS or related oligosaccharide and Muc " mutants to Leucaena
- the acidic EPS from the parent strain ANU280 had been isolated and chemically sequenced (Djordjevic et.al., 1986a), and the structure of the oligo ⁇ saccharide repeat unit is reproduced in Figure la.
- Purified EPS or related oligosaccharide isolated from strain ANU280 was then inoculated onto Leucaena plants together with one of the Muc mutants. This was done to determine if the helper effect of strain ANU265 could be substituted for by the addition of purified EPS from the parent strain ANU280 or from the Sym plasmid-cured strain ANU265.
- the second group of plants to be tested were the temperate legumes, clovers.
- the structure of the EPS of the R.trifolii strain ANU843 was determined using a similar approach as used to determine the structure of the NGR234 EPS.
- the structure of the oligosaccharide of ANU843 used in these plant assays is reproduced in Figure lb.
- the Muc " Rhizobium strain ANU437 is a Tn5-induced mutant derived from strain ANU794. Previous work has shown that strain ANU437 produces levels of EPS which are at least 1000 fold less than that produced by the parent strain and forms small, ineffective nodules on clovers which rapidly senesce (Chakravorty et.al. 1982) .
- Coinoculation of this strain with different Muc " mutants of strain ANU280 enables the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules which were shown to contain both of the inoculated strains. This coinfection phenomenon has been reported previously for temperate legumes (Rolfe et.al. , 1980 a,b) . Purified EPS or related oligosaccharide were added to i ⁇ fectable roots to see if these saccharides could substitute for the addition of the Muc , non-invasive strain ANU265 used in the coinoculation
- the nature of the type of saccharide on the helper strain is important because mixing experiments involving the Muc R.trifolii strain ANU845 (a Sym plasmid. cured derivative of ANU843) and Muc mutants
- this molecule may have a function similar to that of oligosaccharins.
- the action of EPS and/or related oligosaccharide may also rely on the presence of plant enzymes (Dazzo et.al, 1982; Solheim et.al., 1984 and Bhagwhat et.al., 1984) which degrade the bacterial EPS polymer to active oligomers which have a specific role in effective nodule formation.
- NGR234 derivatives relevant Phenotype of Plant genetic characteristics, and Response location of Tn5 in EcoRI Leucaena digested total DNA Siratro
- ANU2811 Tn5 induced Muc Callus Nod mutant of ANU28 (Fix " ) Km r , Sm r , Rf r (Tn5 - 7.0kb)
- ANU2840 Tn5 induced Muc Callus Large Nod mutant of ANU280 Fix " ) Fi Km r , Sm r , Rf r (Tn5 - 7.5kb)
- Plants with Fix nodules reduce acetylene at approximately 30-40% of the efficiency of the parent strain.
- Percentages of plants forming Fix nodules are averages of 10 plant batch experiments. EPS was added 24hrs prior to inoculation with either Muc mutant.
- EPS and oligosaccharide repeat-unit were added 24hrs prior to inoculation of Muc bacteria.
- EPS and oligosaccharide repeat-unit were added 24hrs prior to the inoculation of Muc " mutant ANU437.
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Abstract
Composition, destinée à modifier la réaction de plantes à des micro-organismes comprend le/les exopolysaccharide(s) derivés des bactéries du gène Rhizobium, ou de le/les oligopolysaccharide(s) contenant une ou plusieurs unités doubles dudit/desdits exopolysaccharide(s). Un procédé de traitement de plantes avec ladite composition avant, après ou pendant l'exposition des plantes à des micro-organismes est également décrit.Composition intended to modify the reaction of plants to microorganisms comprises the exopolysaccharide (s) derived from bacteria of the Rhizobium gene, or the oligopolysaccharide (s) containing one or more double units of said exopolysaccharide (s) ). A method of treating plants with said composition before, after or during the exposure of plants to microorganisms is also described.
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