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Hoenicka H, Bein S, Starczak M, Graf W, Hanelt D, Gackowski D. β-Aminobutyric acid promotes stress tolerance, physiological adjustments, as well as broad epigenetic changes at DNA and RNA nucleobases in field elms (Ulmus minor). BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 24:779. [PMID: 39148013 PMCID: PMC11325618 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05425-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 07/15/2024] [Indexed: 08/17/2024]
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BACKGROUND β-Aminobutyric acid (BABA) has been successfully used to prime stress resistance in numerous plant species; however, its effectiveness in forest trees has been poorly explored thus far. This study aimed to investigate the influence of BABA on morphological, physiological, and epigenetic parameters in field elms under various growth conditions. Epigenetic changes were assessed in both DNA and RNA through the use of reversed-phase ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled with sensitive mass spectrometry. RESULTS The presented results confirm the influence of BABA on the development, physiology, and stress tolerance in field elms. However, the most important findings are related to the broad epigenetic changes promoted by this amino acid, which involve both DNA and RNA. Our findings confirm, for the first time, that BABA influences not only well-known epigenetic markers in plants, such as 5-methylcytosine, but also several other non-canonical nucleobases, such as 5-hydroxymethyluracil, 5-formylcytosine, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, N6-methyladenine, uracil (in DNA) and thymine (in RNA). The significant effect on the levels of N6-methyladenine, the main bacterial epigenetic marker, is particularly noteworthy. In this case, the question arises as to whether this effect is due to epigenetic changes in the microbiome, the plant genome, or both. CONCLUSIONS The plant phenotype is the result of complex interactions between the plant's DNA, the microbiome, and the environment. We propose that different types of epigenetic changes in the plant and microbiome may play important roles in the largely unknown memory process that enables plants to adapt faster to changing environmental conditions.
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- Hans Hoenicka
- Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Sieker Landstr. 2, D-22927, Grosshansdorf, Germany.
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- Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Sieker Landstr. 2, D-22927, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Karlowicza 24, Bydgoszcz, 85-095, Poland
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- Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Sieker Landstr. 2, D-22927, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorst. 18, D-22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Karlowicza 24, Bydgoszcz, 85-095, Poland
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Williams K, Subramani M, Lofton LW, Penney M, Todd A, Ozbay G. Tools and Techniques to Accelerate Crop Breeding. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:1520. [PMID: 38891328 PMCID: PMC11174677 DOI: 10.3390/plants13111520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2024] [Revised: 05/25/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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As climate changes and a growing global population continue to escalate the need for greater production capabilities of food crops, technological advances in agricultural and crop research will remain a necessity. While great advances in crop improvement over the past century have contributed to massive increases in yield, classic breeding schemes lack the rate of genetic gain needed to meet future demands. In the past decade, new breeding techniques and tools have been developed to aid in crop improvement. One such advancement is the use of speed breeding. Speed breeding is known as the application of methods that significantly reduce the time between crop generations, thereby streamlining breeding and research efforts. These rapid-generation advancement tactics help to accelerate the pace of crop improvement efforts to sustain food security and meet the food, feed, and fiber demands of the world's growing population. Speed breeding may be achieved through a variety of techniques, including environmental optimization, genomic selection, CRISPR-Cas9 technology, and epigenomic tools. This review aims to discuss these prominent advances in crop breeding technologies and techniques that have the potential to greatly improve plant breeders' ability to rapidly produce vital cultivars.
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- Krystal Williams
- Molecular Genetics and Epigenomics Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Science, and Technology, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901, USA;
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- Molecular Genetics and Epigenomics Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Science, and Technology, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901, USA;
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA;
- Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research Unit, US National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;
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- Molecular Genetics and Epigenomics Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Science, and Technology, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901, USA;
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- One Health Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Science, and Technology, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901, USA
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Thompson MEH, Shrestha A, Rinne J, Limay-Rios V, Reid L, Raizada MN. The Cultured Microbiome of Pollinated Maize Silks Shifts after Infection with Fusarium graminearum and Varies by Distance from the Site of Pathogen Inoculation. Pathogens 2023; 12:1322. [PMID: 38003787 PMCID: PMC10675081 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12111322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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Styles transmit pollen-derived sperm nuclei from pollen to ovules, but also transmit environmental pathogens. The microbiomes of styles are likely important for reproduction/disease, yet few studies exist. Whether style microbiome compositions are spatially responsive to pathogens is unknown. The maize pathogen Fusarium graminearum enters developing grain through the style (silk). We hypothesized that F. graminearum treatment shifts the cultured transmitting silk microbiome (TSM) compared to healthy silks in a distance-dependent manner. Another objective of the study was to culture microbes for future application. Bacteria were cultured from husk-covered silks of 14 F. graminearum-treated diverse maize genotypes, proximal (tip) and distal (base) to the F. graminearum inoculation site. Long-read 16S sequences from 398 isolates spanned 35 genera, 71 species, and 238 OTUs. More bacteria were cultured from F. graminearum-inoculated tips (271 isolates) versus base (127 isolates); healthy silks were balanced. F. graminearum caused a collapse in diversity of ~20-25% across multiple taxonomic levels. Some species were cultured exclusively or, more often, from F. graminearum-treated silks (e.g., Delftia acidovorans, Klebsiella aerogenes, K. grimontii, Pantoea ananatis, Stenotrophomonas pavanii). Overall, the results suggest that F. graminearum alters the TSM in a distance-dependent manner. Many isolates matched taxa that were previously identified using V4-MiSeq (core and F. graminearum-induced), but long-read sequencing clarified the taxonomy and uncovered greater diversity than was initially predicted (e.g., within Pantoea). These isolates represent the first comprehensive cultured collection from pathogen-treated maize silks to facilitate biocontrol efforts and microbial marker-assisted breeding.
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- Michelle E. H. Thompson
- Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (M.E.H.T.)
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- Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (M.E.H.T.)
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- Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (M.E.H.T.)
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- Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus, 120 Main Street E, Ridgetown, ON N0P 2C0, Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada; (M.E.H.T.)
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Vigneaud J, Kohler A, Sow MD, Delaunay A, Fauchery L, Guinet F, Daviaud C, Barry KW, Keymanesh K, Johnson J, Singan V, Grigoriev I, Fichot R, Conde D, Perales M, Tost J, Martin FM, Allona I, Strauss SH, Veneault-Fourrey C, Maury S. DNA hypomethylation of the host tree impairs interaction with mutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungus. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 238:2561-2577. [PMID: 36807327 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Ectomycorrhizas are an intrinsic component of tree nutrition and responses to environmental variations. How epigenetic mechanisms might regulate these mutualistic interactions is unknown. By manipulating the level of expression of the chromatin remodeler DECREASE IN DNA METHYLATION 1 (DDM1) and two demethylases DEMETER-LIKE (DML) in Populus tremula × Populus alba lines, we examined how host DNA methylation modulates multiple parameters of the responses to root colonization with the mutualistic fungus Laccaria bicolor. We compared the ectomycorrhizas formed between transgenic and wild-type (WT) trees and analyzed their methylomes and transcriptomes. The poplar lines displaying lower mycorrhiza formation rate corresponded to hypomethylated overexpressing DML or RNAi-ddm1 lines. We found 86 genes and 288 transposable elements (TEs) differentially methylated between WT and hypomethylated lines (common to both OX-dml and RNAi-ddm1) and 120 genes/1441 TEs in the fungal genome suggesting a host-induced remodeling of the fungal methylome. Hypomethylated poplar lines displayed 205 differentially expressed genes (cis and trans effects) in common with 17 being differentially methylated (cis). Our findings suggest a central role of host and fungal DNA methylation in the ability to form ectomycorrhizas including not only poplar genes involved in root initiation, ethylene and jasmonate-mediated pathways, and immune response but also terpenoid metabolism.
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- Julien Vigneaud
- LBLGC, INRAE, Université d'Orleans, EA 1207 USC 1328, Orléans, 45067, France
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- UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, Centre INRAE Grand Est-Nancy, INRAE, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, 54280, France
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- LBLGC, INRAE, Université d'Orleans, EA 1207 USC 1328, Orléans, 45067, France
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- LBLGC, INRAE, Université d'Orleans, EA 1207 USC 1328, Orléans, 45067, France
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- UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, Centre INRAE Grand Est-Nancy, INRAE, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, 54280, France
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- UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, Centre INRAE Grand Est-Nancy, INRAE, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, 54280, France
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- Laboratory for Epigenetics and Environment Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, CEA-Institut de Biologie Francois Jacob, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, 91000, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- LBLGC, INRAE, Université d'Orleans, EA 1207 USC 1328, Orléans, 45067, France
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- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)-Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Campus de Montegancedo UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, 28223, Spain
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- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)-Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Campus de Montegancedo UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, 28223, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Laboratory for Epigenetics and Environment Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, CEA-Institut de Biologie Francois Jacob, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, 91000, France
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- UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, Centre INRAE Grand Est-Nancy, INRAE, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, 54280, France
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- Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)-Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Campus de Montegancedo UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, 28223, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752, USA
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- UMR 1136 Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, Centre INRAE Grand Est-Nancy, INRAE, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, 54280, France
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- LBLGC, INRAE, Université d'Orleans, EA 1207 USC 1328, Orléans, 45067, France
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Giannelli G, Potestio S, Visioli G. The Contribution of PGPR in Salt Stress Tolerance in Crops: Unravelling the Molecular Mechanisms of Cross-Talk between Plant and Bacteria. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:plants12112197. [PMID: 37299176 DOI: 10.3390/plants12112197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress in global agricultural productivity with an estimated 50% of arable land predicted to become salinized by 2050. Since most domesticated crops are glycophytes, they cannot be cultivated on salt soils. The use of beneficial microorganisms inhabiting the rhizosphere (PGPR) is a promising tool to alleviate salt stress in various crops and represents a strategy to increase agricultural productivity in salt soils. Increasing evidence underlines that PGPR affect plant physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses to salt stress. The mechanisms behind these phenomena include osmotic adjustment, modulation of the plant antioxidant system, ion homeostasis, modulation of the phytohormonal balance, increase in nutrient uptake, and the formation of biofilms. This review focuses on the recent literature regarding the molecular mechanisms that PGPR use to improve plant growth under salinity. In addition, very recent -OMICs approaches were reported, dissecting the role of PGPR in modulating plant genomes and epigenomes, opening up the possibility of combining the high genetic variations of plants with the action of PGPR for the selection of useful plant traits to cope with salt stress conditions.
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- Gianluigi Giannelli
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy
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Yadav R, Chakraborty S, Ramakrishna W. Wheat grain proteomic and protein-metabolite interactions analyses provide insights into plant growth promoting bacteria-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-wheat interactions. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2022; 41:1417-1437. [PMID: 35396966 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-022-02866-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Proteomic, protein-protein and protein-metabolite interaction analyses in wheat inoculated with PGPB and AMF identified key proteins and metabolites that may have a role in enhancing yield and biofortification. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have an impact on grain yield and nutrition. This dynamic yet complex interaction implies a broad reprogramming of the plant's metabolic and proteomic activities. However, little information is available regarding the role of native PGPB and AMF and how they affect the plant proteome, especially under field conditions. Here, proteomic, protein-protein and protein-metabolite interaction studies in wheat triggered by PGPB, Bacillus subtilis CP4 either alone or together with AMF under field conditions was carried out. The dual inoculation with native PGPB (CP4) and AMF promoted the differential abundance of many proteins, such as histones, glutenin, avenin and ATP synthase compared to the control and single inoculation. Interaction study of these differentially expressed proteins using STRING revealed that they interact with other proteins involved in seed development and abiotic stress tolerance. Furthermore, these interacting proteins are involved in carbon fixation, sugar metabolism and biosynthesis of amino acids. Molecular docking predicted that wheat seed storage proteins, avenin and glutenin interact with secondary metabolites, such as trehalose, and sugars, such as xylitol. Mapping of differentially expressed proteins to KEGG pathways showed their involvement in sugar metabolism, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites and modulation of histones. These proteins and metabolites can serve as markers for improving wheat-PGPB-AMF interactions leading to higher yield and biofortification.
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- Radheshyam Yadav
- Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Punjab, VPO Ghudda, Punjab, India
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- Department of Computational Sciences, Central University of Punjab, VPO Ghudda, Punjab, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Punjab, VPO Ghudda, Punjab, India.
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Marco S, Loredana M, Riccardo V, Raffaella B, Walter C, Luca N. Microbe-assisted crop improvement: a sustainable weapon to restore holobiont functionality and resilience. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2022; 9:uhac160. [PMID: 36204199 PMCID: PMC9531342 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhac160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In the past years, breeding programs have been mainly addressed on pushing the commercial features, forgetting important traits, such as those related to environmental stress resilience, that are instead present in wild relatives. Among the traits neglected by breeding processes, the ability to recruit beneficial microorganisms that recently is receiving a growing attention due to its potentiality. In this context, this review will provide a spotlight on critical issues of the anthropocentric point of view that, until now, has characterized the selection of elite plant genotypes. Its effects on the plant-microbiome interactions, and the possibility to develop novel strategies mediated by the exploitation of beneficial root-microbe interactions, will be discussed. More sustainable microbial-assisted strategies might in fact foster the green revolution and the achievement of a more sustainable agriculture in a climatic change scenario.
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- Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-VE), Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano (TV), Italy
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Tiwari S, Gupta SC, Chauhan PS, Lata C. An OsNAM gene plays important role in root rhizobacteria interaction in transgenic Arabidopsis through abiotic stress and phytohormone crosstalk. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2021; 40:143-155. [PMID: 33084964 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-020-02620-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Overexpression of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SN13-responsive OsNAM gene in Arabidopsis reveals its important role in beneficial plant and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria interaction by conferring stress tolerance and phytohormone modulation. Salinity is one of the major constraints that affect crop development and yield. Plants respond and adapt to salt stress via complex mechanisms that involve morpho-physiological, biochemical, and molecular changes. The expression of numerous genes is known to alter during various abiotic stresses and impart stress tolerance. Recently, some known rhizospheric microbes have also been used to mitigate the effects of abiotic stresses; however, the molecular basis of such interactions remains elusive. Therefore, the present investigation was aimed to elucidate the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR; Bacillus amyloliquefaciens-SN13) -induced crosstalk among salinity and phytohormones in OsNAM-overexpressed Arabidopsis plants. Transgenic plants showed increased germination percentage compared to wild-type (WT) seeds under 100 mM of NaCl. Phenotypic data showed increased root length, rosette diameter, leaf size, and biomass in transgenics than WT plants. Transgenic plants can also better maintain membrane integrity and osmolyte concentration under salinity as compared to WT. Further, gene expression analysis of AP2/ERF, GST, ERD4, and ARF2 genes showed differential expression and their positive modulation in transgenic Arabidopsis exposed to salt stress in the presence of SN13 as compared to uninoculated WT. Modulation in IAA, ABA, and GA content in inoculated plants showed the more pronounced positive effects of SN13 on transgenic plants that supported our findings on Arabidopsis-SN13 interaction. Overall, the study concludes that SN13 positively modulated expression of stress-responsive genes under salinity and alter phytohormones levels in OsNAM-overexpressed plants suggesting its extensive role in cross-talk among salinity and phytohormones in response to PGPR.
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- Shalini Tiwari
- CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India
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- CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India
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- CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India.
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- CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India.
- CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India.
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Epigenetics and epigenomics: underlying mechanisms, relevance, and implications in crop improvement. Funct Integr Genomics 2020; 20:739-761. [PMID: 33089419 DOI: 10.1007/s10142-020-00756-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Epigenetics is defined as changes in gene expression that are not associated with changes in DNA sequence but due to the result of methylation of DNA and post-translational modifications to the histones. These epigenetic modifications are known to regulate gene expression by bringing changes in the chromatin state, which underlies plant development and shapes phenotypic plasticity in responses to the environment and internal cues. This review articulates the role of histone modifications and DNA methylation in modulating biotic and abiotic stresses, as well as crop improvement. It also highlights the possibility of engineering epigenomes and epigenome-based predictive models for improving agronomic traits.
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Vassileva M, Flor-Peregrin E, Malusá E, Vassilev N. Towards Better Understanding of the Interactions and Efficient Application of Plant Beneficial Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics and Synbiotics. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:1068. [PMID: 32765556 PMCID: PMC7378762 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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- Maria Vassileva
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice, Poland
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
- *Correspondence: Nikolay Vassilev,
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