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- Title
Influence of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus on <em>Pseudomonas fluorescens</em>.
- Authors
Ravnskov, Sabine; Nybroe, Ole; Jakobsen, Iver
- Abstract
The influence of Glomus intraradices (BEG87) on Pseudomonas fluorescens DF57 in hyphosphere and rhizosphere soil was examined. Cucumis sativus (Aminex, F1 hybrid) was grown in symbiosis with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus G. intraradices in PVC tubes, consisting of a central root compartment and two lateral root-free compartment. Two Tn5-luxAB-marked strains of P. fluorescens DF57 were used. Strain DF57-P2, which has an insertion of Tn5: :luxAB in a phosphate starvation-inducible locus, was used as a phosphate starvation reporter. Another lux-tagged strain DF57-40E7, which carries a constitutively expressed luxAB fusion, was used as control for strain DF57-P2 and for measuring the metabolic activity of P. fluorescens DF57. A strain of P. fluorescens DF57, which carries a constitutively expressed gfp gene, was used in studies of attachment between the bacteria and the hyphac. G. intraradices decreased the culturability of P. fluorescens DF57 significantly, both in rhizosphere and hyphosphere soil, whereas the total number of P. fluorescens DF57 measured by immunofluorescence microscopy was decreased in hyphosphere soil only. G. intraradices did not induce a phosphorus starvation response in P. fluorescens DF57, and the metabolic activity of the bacteria was not affected by the fungus after 48 H. P. fluorescens DF57 did not attach to G. intraradices hyphae and was not able to use the hyphae as carbon substrate. The negative effect of G. intraradices on cultruability and on number of P. fluorescens DF57 in hyphosphere soil is discussed.
- Subjects
GLOMUS intraradices; GLOMUS (Fungi); ENDOGONACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS fluorescens; PSEUDOMONAS; MYCORRHIZAL fungi
- Publication
New Phytologist, 1999, Vol 142, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0028-646X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00374.x