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Parashar M, Dhar SK, Kaur J, Chauhan A, Tamang J, Singh GB, Lyudmila A, Perveen K, Khan F, Bukhari NA, Mudgal G, Gururani MA. Two Novel Plant-Growth-Promoting Lelliottia amnigena Isolates from Euphorbia prostrata Aiton Enhance the Overall Productivity of Wheat and Tomato. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:3081. [PMID: 37687328 PMCID: PMC10490547 DOI: 10.3390/plants12173081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 08/13/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
Abstract
Euphorbiaceae is a highly diverse family of plants ranging from trees to ground-dwelling minute plants. Many of these have multi-faceted attributes like ornamental, medicinal, industrial, and food-relevant values. In addition, they have been regarded as keystone resources for investigating plant-specific resilience mechanisms that grant them the dexterity to withstand harsh climates. In the present study, we isolated two co-culturable bacterial endophytes, EP1-AS and EP1-BM, from the stem internodal segments of the prostate spurge, Euphorbia prostrata, a plant member of the succulent family Euphorbiaceae. We characterized them using morphological, biochemical, and molecular techniques which revealed them as novel strains of Enterobacteriaceae, Lelliotia amnigena. Both the isolates significantly were qualified during the assaying of their plant growth promotion potentials. BM formed fast-growing swarms while AS showed growth as rounded colonies over nutrient agar. We validated the PGP effects of AS and BM isolates through in vitro and ex vitro seed-priming treatments with wheat and tomato, both of which resulted in significantly enhanced seed germination and morphometric and physiological plant growth profiles. In extended field trials, both AS and BM could remarkably also exhibit productive yields in wheat grain and tomato fruit harvests. This is probably the first-ever study in the context of PGPB endophytes in Euphorbia prostrata. We discuss our results in the context of promising agribiotechnology translations of the endophyte community associated with the otherwise neglected ground-dwelling spurges of Euphorbiaceae.
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- Manisha Parashar
- University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, Punjab, India (S.K.D.); (J.K.); (G.B.S.)
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- University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, Punjab, India (S.K.D.); (J.K.); (G.B.S.)
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- University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, Punjab, India (S.K.D.); (J.K.); (G.B.S.)
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- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Applied Sciences & Humanities, GLA University, Mathura 281406, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, Punjab, India (S.K.D.); (J.K.); (G.B.S.)
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- University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, Punjab, India (S.K.D.); (J.K.); (G.B.S.)
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- Laboratory for Phytoremediation of Technogenically Disturbed Ecosystems, Kemerovo State University, Krasnaya Street, 6, 65000 Kemerovo, Russia
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- Department of Botany & Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11495, Saudi Arabia (N.A.B.)
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- Department of Botany & Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11495, Saudi Arabia (N.A.B.)
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- Department of Botany & Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11495, Saudi Arabia (N.A.B.)
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- University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali 140413, Punjab, India (S.K.D.); (J.K.); (G.B.S.)
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain 15551, United Arab Emirates
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Johnson AR, Yue Y, Carey SB, Park SJ, Kruse LH, Bao A, Pasha A, Harkess A, Provart NJ, Moghe GD, Frank MH. Chromosome-level Genome Assembly of Euphorbia peplus, a Model System for Plant Latex, Reveals that Relative Lack of Ty3 Transposons Contributed to Its Small Genome Size. Genome Biol Evol 2023; 15:7033215. [PMID: 36757383 PMCID: PMC10018070 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Euphorbia peplus (petty spurge) is a small, fast-growing plant that is native to Eurasia and has become a naturalized weed in North America and Australia. Euphorbia peplus is not only medicinally valuable, serving as a source for the skin cancer drug ingenol mebutate, but also has great potential as a model for latex production owing to its small size, ease of manipulation in the laboratory, and rapid reproductive cycle. To help establish E. peplus as a new model, we generated a 267.2-Mb Hi-C-anchored PacBio HiFi nuclear genome assembly with a BUSCO score of 98.5%, a genome annotation based on RNA-seq data from six organs, and publicly accessible tools including a genome browser and an interactive organ-specific expression atlas. Chromosome number is highly variable across Euphorbia species. Using a comparative analysis of our newly sequenced E. peplus genome with other Euphorbiaceae genomes, we show that variation in Euphorbia chromosome number between E. peplus and Euphorbia lathyris is likely due to fragmentation and rearrangement rather than chromosomal duplication followed by diploidization of the duplicated sequence. Moreover, we found that the E. peplus genome is relatively compact compared with related members of the genus in part due to restricted expansion of the Ty3 transposon family. Finally, we identify a large gene cluster that contains many previously identified enzymes in the putative ingenol mebutate biosynthesis pathway, along with additional gene candidates for this biosynthetic pathway. The genomic resources we have created for E. peplus will help advance research on latex production and ingenol mebutate biosynthesis in the commercially important Euphorbiaceae family.
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- Arielle R Johnson
- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama
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- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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- Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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