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Eng T, Herbert RA, Martinez U, Wang B, Chen JC, Brown JB, Deutschbauer AM, Bissell MJ, Mortimer JC, Mukhopadhyay A. Iron Supplementation Eliminates Antagonistic Interactions Between Root-Associated Bacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1742. [PMID: 32793173 PMCID: PMC7387576 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
The rhizosphere microbiome (rhizobiome) plays a critical role in plant health and development. However, the processes by which the constituent microbes interact to form and maintain a community are not well understood. To investigate these molecular processes, we examined pairwise interactions between 11 different microbial isolates under select nutrient-rich and nutrient-limited conditions. We observed that when grown with media supplemented with 56 mM glucose, two microbial isolates were able to inhibit the growth of six other microbes. The interaction between microbes persisted even after the antagonistic microbe was removed, upon exposure to spent media. To probe the genetic basis for these antagonistic interactions, we used a barcoded transposon library in a proxy bacterium, Pseudomonas putida, to identify genes which showed enhanced sensitivity to the antagonistic factor(s) secreted by Acinetobacter sp. 02. Iron metabolism-related gene clusters in P. putida were implicated by this systems-level analysis. The supplementation of iron prevented the antagonistic interaction in the original microbial pair, supporting the hypothesis that iron limitation drives antagonistic microbial interactions between rhizobionts. We conclude that rhizobiome community composition is influenced by competition for limiting nutrients, with implications for growth and development of the plant.
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Affiliation(s)
- Thomas Eng
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
| | - Robin A. Herbert
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
| | - Uriel Martinez
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
| | - Brenda Wang
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
| | - Joseph C. Chen
- College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
| | - James B. Brown
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Computational Biosciences Group, Computational Research Division, Computing Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Machine Learning and AI Group, Arva Intelligence Inc., Park City, UT, United States
| | - Adam M. Deutschbauer
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
| | - Mina J. Bissell
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
| | - Jenny C. Mortimer
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
| | - Aindrila Mukhopadhyay
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
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