Stritzler Margarita, Diez Tissera Ana, Soto Gabriela, Ayub Nicolás
Instituto de Genética, CICVyA (INTA), De los reseros S/N, Castelar C25(1712), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Biotechnol Lett. 2018 Oct;40(9-10):1419-1423. doi: 10.1007/s10529-018-2576-6. Epub 2018 May 24.
Identification of novel microbial factors contributing to plant protection against abiotic stress.
The genome of plant growth-promoting bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens FR1 contains a short mobile element encoding a novel type of extracellular polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) polymerase (PhbC) associated with a type I secretion system. Genetic analysis using a phbC mutant strain and plants showed that this novel extracellular enzyme is related to the PHB production in planta and suggests that PHB could be a beneficial microbial compound synthesized during plant adaptation to cold stress.
Extracellular PhbC can be used as a new tool for improve crop production under abiotic stress.