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The Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 Lipopolysaccharide Is Not Only Relevant at Early Soybean Nodulation Stages but Also for Symbiosome Stability in Mature Nodules

2013; Public Library of Science; Volume: 8; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1371/journal.pone.0074717

1932-6203

Isabel Margaret, M. Mercedes Lucas, Sebastián Acosta‐Jurado, Ana M. Buendía-Clavería, Elena Fedorova, Ángeles Hidalgo, Miguel A. Rodríguez‐Carvajal, Dulce N. Rodríguez-Navarro, José E. Ruiz‐Sainz, José‐María Vinardell,

Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

It has been postulated that nodulation outer proteins (Nops) avoid effective nodulation of Sinorhizobium fredii USDA257 to nodulate with American soybeans. S. fredii HH103 naturally nodulates with both Asiatic (non-commercial) and American (commercial) soybeans. Inactivation of the S. fredii HH103 gene rhcJ, which belongs to the tts (type III secretion) cluster, abolished Nop secretion and decreased its symbiotic capacity with the two varieties of soybeans. S. fredii strains HH103 and USDA257, that only nodulates with Asian soybeans, showed different SDS-PAGE Nop profiles, indicating that these strains secrete different sets of Nops. In coinoculation experiments, the presence of strain USDA257 provoked a clear reduction of the nodulation ability of strain HH103 with the American soybean cultivar Williams. These results suggest that S. fredii Nops can act as either detrimental or beneficial symbiotic factors in a strain-cultivar-dependent manner. Differences in the flavonoid-mediated expression of rhcJ with respect to nodA were also detected. In addition, one of the Nops secreted by strain HH103 was identified as NopA.