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Phylogenetic diversity of indigenous Rhizobium trapped from the natural habitat of Pisum sativum L. in eastern and central Algeria

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Aims

The nitrogen-fixing symbiosis fixation between legumes and Rhizobium helps the plant to survive and to compete effectively on nitrogen poor soils. The soil environment attached to the root system is characterized by intense microbial activity. This work aimed to study the diversity of indigenous rhizobia living in the rhizosphere of forage pea in eastern and central Algeria.

Methods

Bacteria were trapped in vitro from collected soils. They were isolated from nodules by direct isolation or by bacterial trapping, and tested for nodulation. Further characterization was carried out to identify the isolates.

Results

Ninety-four isolates were obtained. Thirty-four were rhizobial strains that could, with two exceptions, establish root-nodule symbioses with the host plant. Different profiles of susceptibility to rhizobiophages indicated that the majority of isolates were likely to be members of the Rhizobium leguminosarum group of species. The strains revealed diverse plasmid profiles, and diverse restriction patterns of cpn60 gene amplicons and on Southern blot analysis of nodABC genes. Sequences of 16S rRNA gene showed that all isolates exhibited 99.85% identity with R. leguminosarum sv. viciae USDA 2370T, R. laguerreae FB206T and R. anhuiense CCBAU 23252T. Analysis of cpn60 sequences revealed two groups. One of them clustered with ≤99% identity with R. laguerreae FB403. The second was clustered with ≤99% identity with R. laguerreae FB206T.

Conclusion

Our findings suggest that the isolates may belong to the species R. laguerreae.

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Abbreviations

Rlv :

Rhizobium leguminosarum sv. viciae

LPS:

Lipopolysaccharide

bp:

bases pairs

ITGC:

Institut Technique des Grandes Cultures

EC:

Electrical Conductivity

OM:

Organic Matter

ANRH:

Agence Nationale des Ressources Hydrauliques

NRCS:

Natural Resources Conservation Service

USDA:

United States Department of Agriculture

subsp.:

subspecies

var.:

variety

cv.:

cultivar

TY:

Tryptone Yeast

SDW:

Shoot Dry Weight

YEM:

Yeast Extract-Mannitol

TAE:

Tris-acetate-EDTA

DIG:

digoxigenin

BLASTN:

Nucleotide Basic Local Alignment and Search Tool

cpnDB:

Chaperonin Sequence Database

MEGA:

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis

SD:

Standard Deviation

LSD:

Least Significant Difference

DCA:

Detrended correspondence analysis

RDA:

Redundancy Analysis

CR:

Congo Red

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This work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Algeria, and by a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery grant to MFH.

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Gaci, M., Benhizia, Y., Dems, M.A. et al. Phylogenetic diversity of indigenous Rhizobium trapped from the natural habitat of Pisum sativum L. in eastern and central Algeria. Plant Soil 461, 369–388 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04795-8

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