Unearthing the genomes of plant-beneficial Pseudomonas model strains WCS358, WCS374 and WCS417.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can protect plants against pathogenic microbes through a diversity of mechanisms including competition for nutrients, production of antibiotics, and stimulation of the host immune system, a phenomenon called induced systemic resistance (ISR). In the past 30 years, the Pseudomonas spp. PGPR strains WCS358, WCS374 and WCS417 of the Willie Commelin Scholten (WCS) collection have been studied in detail in pioneering papers on the molecular basis of PGPR-mediated ISR and mechanisms of biological control of soil-borne pathogens via siderophore-mediated competition for iron.

Results

The genomes of the model WCS PGPR strains were sequenced and analyzed to unearth genetic cues related to biological questions that surfaced during

SUBMITTER: Berendsen RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4509608 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature