Abstract
A collection of 300 isolates of fluorescent pseudomonads was established from Douglas fir-Laccaria bicolor mycorrhizas and mycorrhizosphere and from adjacent bulk soil. These isolates were first phenotypically characterized with the Biolog method. Taxonomic identification assigned 90% of the isolates to the different biovars of Pseudomonas fluorescens, with inverted frequencies of biovars V and I from the bulk soil to the mycorrhizas, suggesting that the mycorrhizas exert a selective stimulation of the P. fluorescens bv. I and a counterselection of the P. fluorescens bv. V present in the soil. Multivariate analyses of the carbon source utilization data led to the definition of homogenous metabolic groups and to the identification of the most discriminating substrates for each group. The isolates from the mycorrhizosphere and from the mycorrhizas seem to preferentially utilize carbohydrates, in particular trehalose, which is the most abundant carbohydrate accumulated in the mycelium of L. bicolor. The results suggest that L. bicolor exerts a trehalose-mediated selection on the fluorescent pseudomonads present in the vicinity of the mycorrhizas. Isolates of P. fluorescens from the mycorrhizosphere and mycorrhizas were then genotypically characterized by restriction fragment length polymorphism of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-PCR DNA fingerprinting. Both methods revealed a high genetic polymorphism within the population studied, which was well correlated with the phenotypic characterization.
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