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Rice Blast Lesions: an Unexplored Phyllosphere Microhabitat for Novel Antagonistic Bacterial Species Against Magnaporthe oryzae

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MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages 731-745

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-020-01617-3

Keywords

Rice blast; Blast lesion; Magnaporthe oryzae; Volatiles; Defense activation

Funding

  1. NAHEP-CAAST project on Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement and Management
  2. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India [09/083(0367)/2016-EMR-I]

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Dark brown necrotic lesions caused by Magnaporthe oryzae on rice foliage provide a contrasting microhabitat for leaf-colonizing microbiome, with 17 bacterial species identified in these lesions showing biocontrol potential against the pathogen. Over 50% of the bacterial isolates were able to suppress the growth of M. oryzae, with certain strains triggering the expression of defense genes in rice, indicating their potential as biocontrol agents for managing rice blast disease.
Dark brown necrotic lesions caused by Magnaporthe oryzae on rice foliage is a contrasting microhabitat for leaf-colonizing microbiome as compared with the surrounding healthy chlorophyll-rich tissues. We explored culturable bacterial communities of blast lesions by adopting microbiological tools for isolating effective biocontrol bacterial strains against M. oryzae. 16S rRNA gene sequencing-based molecular identification revealed a total of 17 bacterial species belonging to Achromobacter (2), Comamonas (1), Curtobacterium (1), Enterobacter (1), Leclercia (2), Microbacterium (1), Pantoea (3), Sphingobacterium (1), and Stenotrophomonas (5) found colonizing the lesion. Over 50% of the bacterial isolates were able to suppress the mycelial growth of M. oryzae either by secretory or volatile metabolites. Volatiles released by Achromobacter sp., Curtobacterium luteum, Microbacterium oleivorans, Pantoea ananatis, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, and Stenotrophomonas sp., and were found to be fungicidal while others showed fungistatic action. In planta pathogen challenged evaluation trial revealed the biocontrol potential of Stenotrophomonas sp. and Microbacterium oleivorans that showed over 60% blast severity suppression on the rice leaf. The lesion-associated bacterial isolates were found to trigger expression of defense genes such as OsCEBiP, OsCERK1, OsEDS1, and OsPAD4 indicating their capability to elicit innate defense in rice against blast disease. The investigation culminated in the identification of potential biocontrol agents for the management of rice blast disease.

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