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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 825-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.09.006
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy-EXC [2048/1, 390686111]
- European Research Council advanced grant (ROOTMICROBIOTA)
- RIKEN grant (SYMBIOLOGY)
- Dong-A University - Republic of Korea
- Max Planck Society
- JSPS KAKENHI grants [20K05955, 15J04093]
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Plants benefit from associations with a diverse community of root-colonizing microbes. Deciphering the mechanisms underpinning these beneficial services are of interest for improving plant productivity. We report a plant-beneficial interaction between Arabidopsis thaliana and the root microbiota under iron deprivation that is dependent on the secretion of plant-derived coumarins. Disrupting this pathway alters the microbiota and impairs plant growth in iron-limiting soil. Furthermore, the microbiota improves ironlimiting plant performance via a mechanism dependent on plant iron import and secretion of the coumarin fraxetin. This beneficial trait is strain specific yet functionally redundant across phylogenetic lineages of the microbiota. Transcriptomic and elemental analyses revealed that this interaction between commensals and coumarins promotes growth by relieving iron starvation. These results show that coumarins improve plant performance by eliciting microbe-assisted iron nutrition. We propose that the bacterial root microbiota, stimulated by secreted coumarins, is an integral mediator of plant adaptation to ironlimiting soils.
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