Journal
PLANT JOURNAL
Volume 103, Issue 5, Pages 1666-1678Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14852
Keywords
plant-soil interactions; root exudates; rhizosheaths; polysaccharides; Triticum aestivum; Zea mays
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- University of Leeds Anniversary Research Scholarship
- UK Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/K017489/10]
- BBSRC DTP grant [BB/M011151/1]
- BBSRC Translational Fellowship [BB/M026825/1]
- Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy grant [DE-SC0015662]
- BBSRC [BB/M026825/1, BB/K017489/1, BB/M026825/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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Rhizosheaths function in plant-soil interactions, and are proposed to form due to a mix of soil particle entanglement in root hairs and the action of adhesive root exudates. The soil-binding factors released into rhizospheres to form rhizosheaths have not been characterised. Analysis of the high-molecular-weight (HMW) root exudates of both wheat and maize plants indicate the presence of complex, highly branched polysaccharide components with a wide range of galactosyl, glucosyl and mannosyl linkages that do not directly reflect cereal root cell wall polysaccharide structures. Periodate oxidation indicates that it is the carbohydrate components of the HMW exudates that have soil-binding properties. The root exudates contain xyloglucan (LM25), heteroxylan (LM11/LM27) and arabinogalactan-protein (LM2) epitopes, and sandwich-ELISA evidence indicates that, in wheat particularly, these can be interlinked in multi-polysaccharide complexes. Using wheat as a model, exudate-binding monoclonal antibodies have enabled the tracking of polysaccharide release along root axes of young seedlings, and their presence at root hair surfaces and in rhizosheaths. The observations indicate that specific root exudate polysaccharides, distinct from cell wall polysaccharides, are adhesive factors secreted by root axes, and that they contribute to the formation and stabilisation of cereal rhizosheaths.
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