Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus Gene Fitness during Diazotrophic Growth.

ABSTRACT: Plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria are important to the development of sustainable agricultural systems. PGP microbes that fix atmospheric nitrogen (diazotrophs) could minimize the application of industrially derived fertilizers and function as a biofertilizer. The bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus is a nitrogen-fixing PGP microbe originally discovered in association with sugarcane plants, where it functions as an endophyte. It also forms endophyte associations with a range of other agriculturally relevant crop plants. G. diazotrophicus requires microaerobic conditions for diazotrophic growth. We generated a transposon library for G. diazotrophicus and cultured the library under various growth conditions and culture medium compositions to measure fitness defects associated with

SUBMITTER: Schwister EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9746312 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature