Microbial community structure and function in the spermosphere as affected by soil and seed type

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 138-144

  Buyer, Jeffrey S ^a   Roberts, Daniel P ^b   Russek Cohen, Estelle ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biolog; Fatty acid; Microbial community; Spermosphere; Substrate utilization

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FATTY ACID; PLANT EXTRACT;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEED; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; LIPID ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

EID: 0032765764     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w98-227     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Bååth, E., Díaz-Raviña, M., Frostegård, A., and Campbell, C.D. 1998. Effect of metal-rich sludge amendments on the soil microbial community. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64: 238-245.
2. Bahme, J.B., and Schroth, M.N. 1987. Spatial-temporal colonization patterns of a rhizobacterium on underground organs of potato. Phytopathology, 77: 1093-1100.
3. Bassio, D.A., and Scow, K.M. 1995. Impact of carbon and flooding on the metabolic diversity of microbial communities in soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61: 4043-4050.
4. Bowen, G.D., and Rovira, A.D. 1976. Microbial colonization of plant roots. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 14: 121-144.
5. Bowen, G.D., and Rovira, A.D. 1991. The rhizosphere: the hidden half of the hidden half. In Plant roots: the hidden half. Edited by Y. Waisel, A. Eshel, and U. Kafkafi. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. pp. 641-699.
6. Buyer, J.S., and Drinkwater, L.E. 1997. Comparison of substrate utilization assay and fatty acid analysis of soil microbial communities. J. Microbiol. Methods, 30: 3-11.
7. Cavigelli, M.A., Robertson, G.P., and Klug, M.J. 1995. Fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles as measures of soil microbial community structure. Plant Soil, 170: 99-113.
8. Chao, W.L., Nelson, E.B., Harman, G.E., and Hoch, H.C. 1986. Colonization of the rhizosphere by biological control agents applied to seeds. Phytopathology, 76: 60-65.
9. Cook, R.J. 1992. A customized approach to biological control of wheat root diseases. In Biological control of plant diseases. Progress and challenges for the future. Edited by E.C. Tjamo, G.C. Papavizas, and R.J. Cook. NATO ASI Series, Series A: Life Sciences. Vol. 230. Plenum Press, New York. pp. 211-222.
10. Curl, E.A., and Truelove, B. 1986. The rhizosphere. Springer-Verlag, New York.
11. Frostegård, Å., Bååth, E., and Tunlid, A. 1993. Shifts in the structure of soil microbial communities in limed forests as revealed by phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Soil Biol. Biochem. 25: 723-730.
12. Garland, J.L., and Mills, A.L. 1991. Classification and characterization of heterotrophic microbial communities on the basis of patterns of community-level sole-carbon-source utilization. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57: 2351-2359.
13. Haack, S.K., Garchow, H., Odelson, D.A., Forney, L.J., and Klug, M.J. 1994. Accuracy, reproducibility, and interpretation of fatty acid methyl ester profiles of model bacterial communities. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60: 2483-2493.
14. Hadar, Y, Harman, G.E., Taylor, A.G., and Horton, J.M. 1983. Effects of pregermination of pea and cucumber seeds and of seed treatment with Enterobacter cloacae on rots caused by Phythium spp. Phytopathology, 73: 1322-1325.
15. Leben, S.D., Wadi, J.A., and Easton, G.D. 1987. Effects of Pseudomonas fluorescens on potato plant growth and control of Verticillium dahliae. Phytopathology, 77: 1592-1595.
16. Loper, J.E., Suslow, T.V., and Schroth, M.N. 1984. Lognormal distribution of bacterial populations in the rhizosphere. Phytopathology, 74: 1454-1460.
17. Martin, J.K. 1978. The variation with plant age of root carbon available to soil microflora. In Microbial ecology. Edited by M.W. Loutit and J.A.R. Miles. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 299-302.
18. Martinez, V, Nunez, J.M., Ortiz, A., and Cerda, A. 1994. Changes in amino acid and organic acid composition in tomato and cucumber plants in relation to salinity and nitrogen nutrition. J. Plant Nutr. 17: 1359-1368.
19. Morris, D.L. 1948. Quantitative determination of carbohydrates with Dreywood's anthrone reagent. Science (Washington, D.C.), 107: 254-255.
20. Nelson, E.B. 1988. Biological control of Pythium seed rot and preemergence damping-off of cotton with Enterobacter cloacae and Erwinia herbicola applied as seed treatments. Plant Dis. 72: 140-142.
21. Nelson, E.B. 1991. Exudate molecules initiating fungal responses to seeds and roots. In Beltsville Symposia in Agricultural Research. 14. The rhizosphere and plant growth. Edited by D.L. Keister and P.B. Cregan. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 197-209.
22. Richardson, P.T., Baker, D.A., and Ho, L.C. 1982. The chemical composition of cucurbit vascular exudates. J. Experimental Botany, 33: 1239-1247.
23. Roberts, D.P., Sheets, C.J., and Hartung, J.S. 1992. Evidence for proliferation of Enterobacter cloacae on carbohydrates in cucumber and pea spermosphere. Can. J. Microbiol. 38: 1128-1134.
24. Roberts, D.P., Dery, P.D., and Hartung, J.S. 1996a. Peptide utilization and colonization of corn, radish and wheat spermospheres by Enterobacter cloacae. Soil Biol. Biochem. 28: 1109-1111.
25. Roberts, D.P., Marty, A.M., Dery, P.D., Yucel, I., and Hartung, J.S. 1996b. Amino acids as reduced carbon sources for Enterobacter cloacae during colonization of the spermospheres of crop plants. Soil Biol. Biochem. 28: 1015-1020.
26. Roberts, D.P., Dery, P.D., Yucel, I., Buyer, J.S., Holtman, M.A., and Kobayashi, D.Y. 1997. Genetic analysis of the seed colonization mutant Enterobacter cloacae A-11. In Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria. Edited by A. Ogoshi, K. Kobayuashi, Y. Homma, F. Kodama, N. Kondo, and S. Akino. OECD, Paris. pp. 330-332.
27. Sasser, M.J. 1990. Identification of bacteria by gas chromatography of cellular fatty acids. Technical Note 101. Microbial ID Inc., Newark, Del.
28. Seber, G.A.F. 1984. Multivariate observations. John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York.
29. Spies, J.R. 1957. Colorimetric procedures for amino acids. In Methods in enzymology. Vol. III. Edited by S.P. Colowick and N.O. Kaplan. Academic Press, New York. pp. 467-471.
30. Turner, S.M., and Newman, E.I. 1984. Growth of bacteria on roots of grasses: influence of mineral nutrient supply and interactions between species. J. Gen. Microbiol. 130: 505-512.
31. Turner, S.M., Newman, E.I., and Campbell, R. 1985. Microbial population of ryegrass root surfaces: influence of nitrogen and phosphorus supply. Soil Biol. Biochem. 17: 711-715.
32. Vancura, V. 1964. Root exudates of plants. I. Analysis of root exudates of barley and wheat in their initial phases of growth. Plant Soil, 21: 231-249.
33. Vancura, V, and Hanzlikova, A. 1972. Root exudates of plants. IV. Differences in chemical composition of seed and seedling exudates. Plant Soil, 36: 271-282.
34. Weller, D.M. 1984. Distribution of a take-all suppressive strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens on seminal roots of winter wheat. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 48: 897-899.
35. Weller, D.M. 1987. Biological control of soilborne plant pathogens in the rhizosphere with bacteria. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 26: 379-407.
36. Weller, D.M., and Cook, R.J. 1983. Suppression of take-all of wheat by seed treatments with fluorescent pseudomonads. Phytopathology, 73: 463-469.
37. Xu, G.-W., and Gross, D.C. 1986. Selection of fluorescent pseudomonads antagonistic to Erwinia carotovora and suppressive of potato seed piece decay. Phytopathology, 76: 414-422.
38. Zak, J.C., Willig, M.R., Moorhead, D.L., and Wildman, H.G. 1994. Functional diversity of microbial communities: a quantitative approach. Soil Biol. Biochem. 26: 1101-1108.
39. Zelles, L., Bai, Q.Y., Ma, R.X., Rackwitz, R., Winter, K., and Beese, F. 1994. Microbial biomass, metabolic activity and nutritional status determined from fatty acid patterns and polyhydroxybutyrate in agriculturally-managed soils. Soil Biol. Biochem. 26: 439-446.
40. Zelles, L., Rackwitz, R., Bai, Q.Y., Beck, T., and Beese, F. 1995. Discrimination of microbial diversity by fatty acid profiles of phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides in differently cultivated soils. Plant Soil, 170: 115-122.