Correlated production and consumption of chloromethane in the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere.

ABSTRACT: Chloromethane (CH₃Cl) is a toxic gas mainly produced naturally, in particular by plants, and its emissions contribute to ozone destruction in the stratosphere. Conversely, CH₃Cl can be degraded and used as the sole carbon and energy source by specialised methylotrophic bacteria, isolated from a variety of environments including the phyllosphere, i.e. the aerial parts of vegetation. The potential role of phyllospheric CH₃Cl-degrading bacteria as a filter for plant emissions of CH₃Cl was investigated using variants of Arabidopsis thaliana with low, wild-type and high expression of HOL1 methyltransferase previously shown to be responsible for most of CH₃Cl emissions by A. thaliana. Presence and expression of the bacterial chloromethane de

SUBMITTER: Farhan Ul Haque M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5730606 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature