Journal
SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 8, Pages 534-545Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2016.08.002
Keywords
Ensifer; Multi locus sequence analysis (MLSA); Tephrosia; Symbiosis; Thar Desert; Legume
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- University Grants Commission, New Delhi [F.30-16/2014, 43-129/2014[SR]]
- DBT, Govt. of India [BT/PR11461/AGR/21/270/2008]
- DST-FIST
- DST-SERB [SB/YS/LS-369/2013]
- Crawford Fund Award-ATSE, Australia
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Phylogenetically diverse Ensifer strains associated with five species of Tephrosia growing in alkaline soils of semi-arid regions of the Thar Desert were characterized using multi locus sequence analysis. Based on 16S rRNA and four protein -coding housekeeping gene (recA, atpD, glnll and dnaK) sequences, the Tephrosia Ensifer strains were genetically different from the type strains of Ensifer saheli, Ensifer kostiensis, Ensifer terangae (African origin) and Ensifer psoraleae (Asiatic origin). One strain, Ensifer sp. TL4, showed maximum similarity (99%) to Ensifer adhaerens LMG 20216(T) and formed a separate lineage close to it. Phylogenetic incongruence between sym and housekeeping genes was observed. The monophyletic origin of symbiotic genes from Asia in the Tephrosia Ensifer strains from the Thar Desert suggests that they might have been acquired from a common ancestor and horizontally transferred. These novel strains are promiscuous, cross-nodulating some papilionoid crop species, mimosoid trees and the caesalpinioid Chamaecrista pumila. This study improves understanding of the distribution of Ensifer in unexplored and threatened alkaline arid regions of the Thar Desert and how this relates to other similar regions in the world. (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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