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Kehlet-Delgado H, Montoya AP, Jensen KT, Wendlandt CE, Dexheimer C, Roberts M, Torres Martínez L, Friesen ML, Griffitts JS, Porter SS. The evolutionary genomics of adaptation to stress in wild rhizobium bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2311127121. [PMID: 38507447 PMCID: PMC10990125 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2311127121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024] Open
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Microbiota comprise the bulk of life's diversity, yet we know little about how populations of microbes accumulate adaptive diversity across natural landscapes. Adaptation to stressful soil conditions in plants provides seminal examples of adaptation in response to natural selection via allelic substitution. For microbes symbiotic with plants however, horizontal gene transfer allows for adaptation via gene gain and loss, which could generate fundamentally different evolutionary dynamics. We use comparative genomics and genetics to elucidate the evolutionary mechanisms of adaptation to physiologically stressful serpentine soils in rhizobial bacteria in western North American grasslands. In vitro experiments demonstrate that the presence of a locus of major effect, the nre operon, is necessary and sufficient to confer adaptation to nickel, a heavy metal enriched to toxic levels in serpentine soil, and a major axis of environmental soil chemistry variation. We find discordance between inferred evolutionary histories of the core genome and nreAXY genes, which often reside in putative genomic islands. This suggests that the evolutionary history of this adaptive variant is marked by frequent losses, and/or gains via horizontal acquisition across divergent rhizobium clades. However, different nre alleles confer distinct levels of nickel resistance, suggesting allelic substitution could also play a role in rhizobium adaptation to serpentine soil. These results illustrate that the interplay between evolution via gene gain and loss and evolution via allelic substitution may underlie adaptation in wild soil microbiota. Both processes are important to consider for understanding adaptive diversity in microbes and improving stress-adapted microbial inocula for human use.
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT84602
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA98686
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA99164
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA99164
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT84602
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA98686
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Montoya AP, Wendlandt CE, Benedict AB, Roberts M, Piovia-Scott J, Griffitts JS, Porter SS. Hosts winnow symbionts with multiple layers of absolute and conditional discrimination mechanisms. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20222153. [PMID: 36598018 PMCID: PMC9811631 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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In mutualism, hosts select symbionts via partner choice and preferentially direct more resources to symbionts that provide greater benefits via sanctions. At the initiation of symbiosis, prior to resource exchange, it is not known how the presence of multiple symbiont options (i.e. the symbiont social environment) impacts partner choice outcomes. Furthermore, little research addresses whether hosts primarily discriminate among symbionts via sanctions, partner choice or a combination. We inoculated the legume, Acmispon wrangelianus, with 28 pairs of fluorescently labelled Mesorhizobium strains that vary continuously in quality as nitrogen-fixing symbionts. We find that hosts exert robust partner choice, which enhances their fitness. This partner choice is conditional such that a strain's success in initiating nodules is impacted by other strains in the social environment. This social genetic effect is as important as a strain's own genotype in determining nodulation and has both transitive (consistent) and intransitive (idiosyncratic) effects on the probability that a symbiont will form a nodule. Furthermore, both absolute and conditional partner choice act in concert with sanctions, among and within nodules. Thus, multiple forms of host discrimination act as a series of sieves that optimize host benefits and select for costly symbiont cooperation in mixed symbiont populations.
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- Angeliqua P. Montoya
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA 98686, USA
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Wendlandt CE, Roberts M, Nguyen KT, Graham ML, Lopez Z, Helliwell EE, Friesen ML, Griffitts JS, Price P, Porter SS. Negotiating mutualism: A locus for exploitation by rhizobia has a broad effect size distribution and context-dependent effects on legume hosts. J Evol Biol 2022; 35:844-854. [PMID: 35506571 PMCID: PMC9325427 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/02/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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In mutualisms, variation at genes determining partner fitness provides the raw material upon which coevolutionary selection acts, setting the dynamics and pace of coevolution. However, we know little about variation in the effects of genes that underlie symbiotic fitness in natural mutualist populations. In some species of legumes that form root nodule symbioses with nitrogen‐fixing rhizobial bacteria, hosts secrete nodule‐specific cysteine‐rich (NCR) peptides that cause rhizobia to differentiate in the nodule environment. However, rhizobia can cleave NCR peptides through the expression of genes like the plasmid‐borne Host range restriction peptidase (hrrP), whose product degrades specific NCR peptides. Although hrrP activity can confer host exploitation by depressing host fitness and enhancing symbiont fitness, the effects of hrrP on symbiosis phenotypes depend strongly on the genotypes of the interacting partners. However, the effects of hrrP have yet to be characterised in a natural population context, so its contribution to variation in wild mutualist populations is unknown. To understand the distribution of effects of hrrP in wild rhizobia, we measured mutualism phenotypes conferred by hrrP in 12 wild Ensifer medicae strains. To evaluate context dependency of hrrP effects, we compared hrrP effects across two Medicago polymorpha host genotypes and across two experimental years for five E. medicae strains. We show for the first time in a natural population context that hrrP has a wide distribution of effect sizes for many mutualism traits, ranging from strongly positive to strongly negative. Furthermore, we show that hrrP effect size varies across host genotypes and experiment years, suggesting that researchers should be cautious about extrapolating the role of genes in natural populations from controlled laboratory studies of single genetic variants.
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- Camille E Wendlandt
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA
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- Biology Department, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA.,Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
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- Biology Department, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA
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Wendlandt CE, Gano-Cohen KA, Stokes PJN, Jonnala BNR, Zomorrodian AJ, Al-Moussawi K, Sachs JL. Wild legumes maintain beneficial soil rhizobia populations despite decades of nitrogen deposition. Oecologia 2022; 198:419-430. [PMID: 35067801 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05116-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Natural landscapes are increasingly impacted by nitrogen enrichment from aquatic and airborne pollution sources. Nitrogen enrichment in the environment can eliminate the net benefits that plants gain from nitrogen-fixing microbes such as rhizobia, potentially altering host-mediated selection on nitrogen fixation. However, we know little about the long-term effects of nitrogen enrichment on this critical microbial service. Here, we sampled populations of the legume Acmispon strigosus and its associated soil microbial communities from sites spanning an anthropogenic nitrogen deposition gradient. We measured the net growth benefits plants obtained from their local soil microbial communities and quantified plant investment into nodules that house nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. We found that plant growth benefits from sympatric soil microbes did not vary in response to local soil nitrogen levels, and instead varied mainly among plant lines. Soil nitrogen levels positively predicted the number of nodules formed on sympatric plant hosts, although this was likely due to plant genotypic variation in nodule formation, rather than variation among soil microbial communities. The capacity of all the tested soil microbial communities to improve plant growth is consistent with plant populations imposing strong selection on rhizobial nitrogen fixation despite elevated soil nitrogen levels, suggesting that host control traits in A. strigosus are stable under long-term nutrient enrichment.
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- Camille E Wendlandt
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA. .,Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA. .,Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
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Wendlandt CE, Helliwell E, Roberts M, Nguyen KT, Friesen ML, von Wettberg E, Price P, Griffitts JS, Porter SS. Decreased coevolutionary potential and increased symbiont fecundity during the biological invasion of a legume-rhizobium mutualism. Evolution 2021; 75:731-747. [PMID: 33433925 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Although most invasive species engage in mutualism, we know little about how mutualism evolves as partners colonize novel environments. Selection on cooperation and standing genetic variation for mutualism traits may differ between a mutualism's invaded and native ranges, which could alter cooperation and coevolutionary dynamics. To test for such differences, we compare mutualism traits between invaded- and native-range host-symbiont genotype combinations of the weedy legume, Medicago polymorpha, and its nitrogen-fixing rhizobium symbiont, Ensifer medicae, which have coinvaded North America. We find that mutualism benefits for plants are indistinguishable between invaded- and native-range symbioses. However, rhizobia gain greater fitness from invaded-range mutualisms than from native-range mutualisms, and this enhancement of symbiont fecundity could increase the mutualism's spread by increasing symbiont availability during plant colonization. Furthermore, mutualism traits in invaded-range symbioses show lower genetic variance and a simpler partitioning of genetic variance between host and symbiont sources, compared to native-range symbioses. This suggests that biological invasion has reduced mutualists' potential to respond to coevolutionary selection. Additionally, rhizobia bearing a locus (hrrP) that can enhance symbiotic fitness have more exploitative phenotypes in invaded-range than in native-range symbioses. These findings highlight the impacts of biological invasion on the evolution of mutualistic interactions.
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- Camille E Wendlandt
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington
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Gano-Cohen KA, Wendlandt CE, Al Moussawi K, Stokes PJ, Quides KW, Weisberg AJ, Chang JH, Sachs JL. Recurrent mutualism breakdown events in a legume rhizobia metapopulation. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20192549. [PMID: 31992172 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Bacterial mutualists generate major fitness benefits for eukaryotes, reshaping the host phenotype and its interactions with the environment. Yet, microbial mutualist populations are predicted to generate mutants that defect from providing costly services to hosts while maintaining the capacity to exploit host resources. Here, we examined the mutualist service of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in a metapopulation of root-nodulating Bradyrhizobium spp. that associate with the native legume Acmispon strigosus. We quantified mutualism traits of 85 Bradyrhizobium isolates gathered from a 700 km transect in California spanning 10 sampled A. strigosus populations. We clonally inoculated each Bradyrhizobium isolate onto A. strigosus hosts and quantified nodulation capacity and net effects of infection, including host growth and isotopic nitrogen concentration. Six Bradyrhizobium isolates from five populations were categorized as ineffective because they formed nodules but did not enhance host growth via nitrogen fixation. Six additional isolates from three populations failed to form root nodules. Phylogenetic reconstruction inferred two types of mutualism breakdown, including three to four independent losses of effectiveness and five losses of nodulation capacity on A. strigosus. The evolutionary and genomic drivers of these mutualism breakdown events remain poorly understood.
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- Kelsey A Gano-Cohen
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.,Department of Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.,Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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Gano‐Cohen KA, Wendlandt CE, Stokes PJ, Blanton MA, Quides KW, Zomorrodian A, Adinata ES, Sachs JL. Interspecific conflict and the evolution of ineffective rhizobia. Ecol Lett 2019; 22:914-924. [DOI: 10.1111/ele.13247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kelsey A. Gano‐Cohen
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology University of California Riverside CA USA
- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology University of California Riverside CA USA
- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences University of California Riverside CA USA
- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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Wendlandt CE, Regus JU, Gano-Cohen KA, Hollowell AC, Quides KW, Lyu JY, Adinata ES, Sachs JL. Host investment into symbiosis varies among genotypes of the legume Acmispon strigosus, but host sanctions are uniform. New Phytol 2019; 221:446-458. [PMID: 30084172 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Efficient host control predicts the extirpation of ineffective symbionts, but they are nonetheless widespread in nature. We tested three hypotheses for the maintenance of symbiotic variation in rhizobia that associate with a native legume: partner mismatch between host and symbiont, such that symbiont effectiveness varies with host genotype; resource satiation, whereby extrinsic sources of nutrients relax host control; and variation in host control among host genotypes. We inoculated Acmispon strigosus from six populations with three Bradyrhizobium strains that vary in symbiotic effectiveness on sympatric hosts. We measured proxies of host and symbiont fitness in single- and co-inoculations under fertilization treatments of zero added nitrogen (N) and near-growth-saturating N. We examined two components of host control: 'host investment' into nodule size during single- and co-inoculations, and 'host sanctions' against less effective strains during co-inoculations. The Bradyrhizobium strains displayed conserved growth effects on hosts, and host control did not decline under experimental fertilization. Host sanctions were robust in all hosts, but host lines from different populations varied significantly in measures of host investment in both single- and co-inoculation experiments. Variation in host investment could promote variation in symbiotic effectiveness and prevent the extinction of ineffective Bradyrhizobium from natural populations.
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- Camille E Wendlandt
- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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Sachs JL, Quides KW, Wendlandt CE. Legumes versus rhizobia: a model for ongoing conflict in symbiosis. New Phytol 2018; 219:1199-1206. [PMID: 29845625 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Contents Summary 1199 I. Introduction 1199 II. Selecting beneficial symbionts: one problem, many solutions 1200 III. Control and conflict over legume nodulation 1201 IV. Control and conflict over nodule growth and senescence 1204 V. Conclusion 1204 Acknowledgements 1205 References 1205 SUMMARY: The legume-rhizobia association is a powerful model of the limits of host control over microbes. Legumes regulate the formation of root nodules that house nitrogen-fixing rhizobia and adjust investment into nodule development and growth. However, the range of fitness outcomes in these traits reveals intense conflicts of interest between the partners. New work that we review and synthesize here shows that legumes have evolved varied mechanisms of control over symbionts, but that host control is often subverted by rhizobia. An outcome of this conflict is that both legumes and rhizobia have evolved numerous traits that can improve their own short-term fitness in this interaction, but little evidence exists for any net improvement in the joint trait of nitrogen fixation.
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- Joel L Sachs
- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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