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Culturomics of Andropogon gerardii rhizobiome revealed nitrogen transforming capabilities of stress-tolerant Pseudomonas under drought conditions

Sarkar, S.; Kamke, A.; Ward, K.; Hartung, E.; Ran, Q.; Feehan, B.; Galliart, M.; Jumpponen, A. M.; Johnson, L.; Lee, S. T. M.

2022-07-19 microbiology
10.1101/2022.07.18.500515 bioRxiv
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BackgroundClimate change will result in more frequent droughts that impact soil-inhabiting microbiomes in the agriculturally vital North American perennial grasslands. In this study, we used the combination of culturomics and high-resolution genomic sequencing of microbial consortia isolated from the rhizosphere of a tallgrass prairie foundation grass, Andropogon gerardii. We cultivated the plant host-associated microbes under artificial drought-induced conditions and identified the microbe(s) that might play a significant role in the rhizobiome of Andropogon gerardii under drought conditions. ResultsPhylogenetic analysis of the non-redundant metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) identified the bacterial population of interest - MAG-Pseudomonas. Further metabolic pathway and pangenome analyses detected genes and pathways related to nitrogen transformation and stress responses in MAG-Pseudomonas. ConclusionsOur data indicate that the metagenome-assembled MAG-Pseudomonas has the functional potential to contribute to the plant hosts growth during stressful conditions. This study provided insights into optimizing plant productivity under drought conditions.

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