Project description:Drought is one of the most detrimental environmental factors that adversely affect crop production, thus jeopardizing food supplies for a growing world population. Over the past years, it has become evident that microorganisms associated with plants can enhance drought tolerance. However, the specific genetic and molecular mechanisms underpinning bacterial induction of drought tolerance in plants are still largely unknown. In our work, we have shown that a root endophytic Flavobacterium sp. 98 confers significant drought tolerance to Arabidopsis thaliana without compromising growth and yield. Here, we compared the transcriptome of Arabidopsis seedlings inoculated with Flavobacterium or mock (time series) to identify transcription reprograming induced by Flavo in plants.
