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Settlement of Pantoea agglomerans D5/23 in Roots of Maize Grown in Hydroponic
and in Sterilized Soil
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(Deutsch)
Philip Jacobs, Ernst-Christian Landsberg, Charlotte Hecht-Buchholz, Ursula
Ortmann, and Carmen Wolfram-Wienberg
Institut für Pflanzenbauwissenschaften, Fachgebiet Pflanzenernährung
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lentzeallee 55-57, D-14195 Berlin,
Germany
Summary
Maize plantlets inoculated with the bacterial strain Pantoea agglomerans
D5/23 were grown in hydroponic under sterile conditions resp. in sterilized
artificial soil in pots outside. Plants in hydroponic were also treated
with 2,4-D. Transmission electron microscopy of root cuttings revealed strong
bacterial settlement on the root surface after hydroponic cultivation.
Bacterial settlement was observed in disruptions of the root cortex where
lateral roots emerged, and in intercellular spaces of the cortex in the
root hair zone of one maize plant. 2,4-D-treated plants developed modified
root outgrowths (MROs, inhibited lateral roots). Bacteria were not observed
inside MROs, but settled damaged cortex tissue around them, including lysed
cortex and epidermis cells. Plants were strongly impaired by application
of 2,4-D; additional inoculation of Pantoea agglomerans resulted in even
lower development of fresh and dry weight resp. plant length. 2,4-D-treated
plants were generally more strongly colonized than plants without 2,4-D.
Light microscopy of maize roots grown in artificial soil showed bacterial
settlement of the root surface 4 days after inoculation, non-inoculated
roots hardly being colonized. 38 day-old inoculated maize plants had significantly
higher SPAD values than non-inoculated plants in case of low N nutrition.
After 82 days, there were no significant differences at all, neither in
N accumulation nor in biomass production. All plants showed root surface
colonization by various bacterial species and without recognizable differences
between inoculated and non-inoculated plants.
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