Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22136655
Keywords
rhizospheric chemotaxis; plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR); methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP); dCache; chemoeffector
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31900080]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [KJQN201919, KJQN202014]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M651847]
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [BIO2016-76779-P]
- Junta de Andalucia [P18-FR-1621]
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Chemotaxis plays a crucial role in the rhizosphere colonization by rhizobacteria, enabling recruitment of bacteria via root exudates and establishment of interactions with plant roots. Research progress includes identification of key chemoeffectors and chemoreceptors, as well as the promotion of beneficial rhizobacteria-plant interactions through rhizobacterial chemotaxis and other root-microbe interactions. Future research efforts are needed to address existing gaps in knowledge.
Chemotaxis, the ability of motile bacteria to direct their movement in gradients of attractants and repellents, plays an important role during the rhizosphere colonization by rhizobacteria. The rhizosphere is a unique niche for plant-microbe interactions. Root exudates are highly complex mixtures of chemoeffectors composed of hundreds of different compounds. Chemotaxis towards root exudates initiates rhizobacteria recruitment and the establishment of bacteria-root interactions. Over the last years, important progress has been made in the identification of root exudate components that play key roles in the colonization process, as well as in the identification of the cognate chemoreceptors. In the first part of this review, we summarized the roles of representative chemoeffectors that induce chemotaxis in typical rhizobacteria and discussed the structure and function of rhizobacterial chemoreceptors. In the second part we reviewed findings on how rhizobacterial chemotaxis and other root-microbe interactions promote the establishment of beneficial rhizobacteria-plant interactions leading to plant growth promotion and protection of plant health. In the last part we identified the existing gaps in the knowledge and discussed future research efforts that are necessary to close them.
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