School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy, Ministry of Education, Changsha, China.
mSystems. 2024 Apr 16;9(4):e0112623. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01126-23. Epub 2024 Mar 20.
UNLABELLED: The contamination of the plant phyllosphere with antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), caused by application of antibiotics, is a significant environmental issue in agricultural management. Alternatively, biocontrol agents are environmentally friendly and have attracted a lot of interest. However, the influence of biocontrol agents on the phyllosphere resistome remains unknown. In this study, we applied biocontrol agents to control the wildfire disease in the Solanaceae crops and investigated their effects on the resistome and the pathogen in the phyllosphere by using metagenomics. A total of 250 ARGs were detected from 15 samples, which showed a variation in distribution across treatments of biocontrol agents (BA), BA with Mg (T1), BA with Mn (T2), and kasugamycin (T3) and nontreated (CK). The results showed that the abundance of ARGs under the treatment of BA-Mg was lower than that in the CK group. The abundance of (carbapenem resistance), (carbapenem resistance), (tetracycline antibiotic resistance), and (aminoglycoside antibiotic resistance) in BA-Mg was significantly higher than that in BA-Mn ( < 0.05). The abundance of , and was significantly negatively related to the abundance of the phyllosphere pathogen ( < 0.05). We also found that the upstream and downstream regions of were relatively conserved, in which , and gene families were identified in most sequences (92%). The Ka/Ks of was 0 in all observed sequences, indicating that under the action of purifying selection, nonsynonymous substitutions are often gradually eliminated in the population. Overall, this study clarifies the effect of biocontrol agents with Mg on the distribution of the phyllosphere resistome and provides evolutionary insights into the biocontrol process. IMPORTANCE: Our study applied metagenomics analysis to examine the impact of biocontrol agents (BAs) on the phyllosphere resistome and the pathogen. Irregular use of antibiotics has led to the escalating dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment. The majority of BA research has focused on the effect of monospecies on the plant disease control process, the role of the compound BA with nutrition elements in the phyllosphere disease, and the resistome is still unknown. We believe BAs are eco-friendly alternatives for antibiotics to combat the transfer of ARGs. Our results revealed that BA-Mg had a lower relative abundance of ARGs compared to the CK group, and the phyllosphere pathogen was negatively related to three specific ARGs, , and . These three genes also present different Ka/Ks. We believe that the identification of the distribution and evolution modes of ARGs further elucidates the ecological role and facilitates the development of BAs, which will attract general interest in this field.
未加标签:抗生素和抗生素抗性基因(ARGs)在植物叶际的污染,是农业管理中一个重要的环境问题。抗生素的应用导致了这种污染。相比之下,生物防治剂对环境友好,引起了广泛的关注。然而,生物防治剂对叶际抗性组的影响尚不清楚。在这项研究中,我们应用生物防治剂来控制茄科作物的野火病,并通过宏基因组学研究了它们对叶际抗性组和病原体的影响。从 15 个样本中检测到了 250 个抗生素抗性基因(ARGs),它们在生物防治剂(BA)、BA 与 Mg(T1)、BA 与 Mn(T2)和 kasugamycin(T3)和未处理(CK)的处理中表现出不同的分布。结果表明,BA-Mg 处理下 ARGs 的丰度低于 CK 组。BA-Mg 中 (碳青霉烯类耐药)、 (碳青霉烯类耐药)、 (四环素类抗生素耐药)和 (氨基糖苷类抗生素耐药)的丰度明显高于 BA-Mn(<0.05)。 、 和 与叶际病原体 (<0.05)的丰度呈显著负相关。我们还发现 上游和下游区域相对保守,其中大多数序列(92%)中鉴定出 、 和 基因家族。在所有观察到的序列中, 的 Ka/Ks 均为 0,表明在纯化选择的作用下,非同义突变通常会在种群中逐渐被消除。总体而言,本研究阐明了含 Mg 的生物防治剂对叶际抗性组分布的影响,并为生物防治过程提供了进化见解。
重要性:我们的研究应用宏基因组学分析来研究生物防治剂(BAs)对叶际抗性组和病原体的影响。抗生素的不规范使用导致了环境中抗生素抗性基因(ARGs)的传播不断加剧。大多数 BA 研究都集中在单一种群对植物疾病控制过程的影响、复合 BA 与营养元素在叶际疾病中的作用以及抗性组仍不清楚。我们认为,BA 是替代抗生素的环保替代品,可用于对抗 ARGs 的转移。我们的结果表明,与 CK 组相比,BA-Mg 的相对 ARGs 丰度较低,叶际病原体 与三个特定的 ARGs(、和)呈负相关。这三个基因的 Ka/Ks 也不同。我们认为,ARGs 的分布和进化模式的鉴定进一步阐明了其生态作用,并促进了 BA 的发展,这将引起该领域的广泛关注。
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