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. 1996 Jul;62(7):2449–2456. doi: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2449-2456.1996

The Composition of Fluorescent Pseudomonad Populations Associated with Roots Is Influenced by Plant and Soil Type

X Latour, T Corberand, G Laguerre, F Allard, P Lemanceau
PMCID: PMC1388893  PMID: 16535355

Abstract

Populations of fluorescent pseudomonads isolated from an uncultivated soil and from the roots of two plant species were previously shown to differ (P. Lemanceau, T. Corberand, L. Gardan, X. Latour, G. Laguerre, J.-M. Boeufgras, and C. Alabouvette, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:1004-1012, 1995). The diversities of fluorescent pseudomonads, from two uncultivated soils and from the roots of two plant species cultivated in these two soils, were compared. The phenotypic diversity of the bacterial isolates was characterized on the basis of biochemical and physiological tests and on the basis of their ability to utilize 147 different organic compounds. The genotypic diversity of the isolates was characterized on the basis of the types of 16S genes coding for rRNA (rDNA), their repetitive extragenic palindromic patterns by PCR, and plasmid profiles. Taxonomic identification of the isolates was achieved with both biochemical and physiological tests and by comparing their 16S rDNA types to those of reference and type strains of fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. Numerical analysis of phenotypic characteristics allowed the clustering of isolates that showed high levels of similarity. This analysis indicated that both soil type and host plant had an effect on the diversity of fluorescent pseudomonads. However, of the two factors studied, the soil was clearly the dominating one. Indeed, the populations associated with the roots of each plant species varied from one soil to the other. This variation could possibly be ascribed to the differences recorded between the phenotypically diverse populations of fluorescent pseudomonads from the two uncultivated soils. The plant selection was, at least partly, plant specific. It was not related to bacterial species and biovars or to the presence of plasmid DNA. The phenotypic clustering of isolates was well correlated with genotypic characterization by repetitive extragenic palindrome-PCR fingerprinting.

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