Paper · 2002 · Journal of Experimental Botany

An inducible activator produced by a Serratia proteamaculans strain and its soybean growth‐promoting activity under greenhouse conditions

Yuming Bai; Alfred Souleimanov; Donald L. Smith

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Abstract

Serratia proteamaculans 1‐102 (1‐102) promotes soybean–bradyrhizobia nodulation and growth, but the mechanism is unknown. After adding isoflavonoid inducers to 1‐102 culture, an active peak with a retention time of about 105 min in the HPLC fractionation was isolated using a bioassay based on the stimulation of soybean seed germination. The plant growth‐promoting activity of this material was compared with 1‐102 culture (cells) and supernatant under greenhouse conditions. The activator was applied to roots in 83, 830 and 8300 HPLC microvolts (μV) per seedling when plants were inoculated with bradyrhizobia or sprayed onto the leaves in same concentrations at 20 d after inoculation. The root‐applied activator, especially at 1 ml of 830 μV per seedling, enhanced soybean nodulation and growth at the same level as 1‐102 culture under both optimal and sub‐optimal root zone temperatures. Thus, this activator stimulating soybean seed germination is also responsible for the plant growth‐promoting activity of 1‐102 culture. However, when sprayed onto the leaves, the activator did not increase growth and in higher concentrations decreased average single leaf area. The results suggest that this inducible activator might be a lipo‐chitooligosaccharide (LCO) analogue. LCOs act as rhizobia‐to‐legume signals stimulating root nodule formation. The activator could provide additional ‘signal’, increasing in the signal quality (the signal‐to‐noise ratio, SNR) of the plant–rhizobia signal exchange process.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The inducible activator stimulated soybean seed germination.

Taxon
soybeanGlycine maxe2
Treatment
this activatore2
Outcome
seed germinatione2
Direction
stimulatinge2

Not reportedComparator

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Glycine max
Glycine max · TaxonPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e2

“this activator stimulating soybean seed germination is also responsible for the plant growth‐promoting activity of 1‐102 culture”

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

An active peak with a retention time of about 105 min was isolated from Serratia proteamaculans 1-102 culture amended with isoflavonoid inducers, using a soybean seed germination bioassay.

Taxon
soybeanGlycine maxe0
Interactor
Serratia proteamaculans 1‐102Serratia proteamaculanse0symbiont
Outcome
active peake1
Value
about 105 mine1

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Glycine max
Glycine max · TaxonPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Serratia proteamaculans 1‐102 (1‐102) promotes soybean–bradyrhizobia nodulation and growth”

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e1

“After adding isoflavonoid inducers to 1‐102 culture, an active peak with a retention time of about 105 min in the HPLC fractionation was isolated using a bioassay based on the stimulation of soybean seed germination”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Root-applied activator enhanced soybean nodulation and growth to the same level as 1-102 culture under optimal and sub-optimal root zone temperatures.

Taxon
soybeanGlycine maxe3
Treatment
root‐applied activatore3
Interactor
bradyrhizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
nodulation and growthe3
Direction
enhancede3
Qualifier
under both optimal and sub‐optimal root zone temperaturese3
Comparator
1‐102 culturee3
Setting
greenhouse conditionse4

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Glycine max
Glycine max · TaxonPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Serratia proteamaculans 1‐102 (1‐102) promotes soybean–bradyrhizobia nodulation and growth”

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e3

“The root‐applied activator, especially at 1 ml of 830 μV per seedling, enhanced soybean nodulation and growth at the same level as 1‐102 culture under both optimal and sub‐optimal root zone temperatures”

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“The plant growth‐promoting activity of this material was compared with 1‐102 culture (cells) and supernatant under greenhouse conditions”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Activator sprayed onto the leaves did not increase soybean growth.

Taxon
soybeanGlycine maxe0
Treatment
sprayed onto the leavese5
Outcome
growthe5
Direction
did not increasee5

Not reportedComparator

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Glycine max
Glycine max · TaxonPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Serratia proteamaculans 1‐102 (1‐102) promotes soybean–bradyrhizobia nodulation and growth”

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e5

“However, when sprayed onto the leaves, the activator did not increase growth and in higher concentrations decreased average single leaf area”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Higher concentrations of the activator sprayed onto soybean leaves decreased average single leaf area.

Taxon
soybeanGlycine maxe0
Treatment
higher concentrationse5
Outcome
average single leaf areae5
Direction
decreasede5

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Glycine max
Glycine max · TaxonPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Serratia proteamaculans 1‐102 (1‐102) promotes soybean–bradyrhizobia nodulation and growth”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–90 · show in text ↑
e5

“However, when sprayed onto the leaves, the activator did not increase growth and in higher concentrations decreased average single leaf area”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1030–1170 · show in text ↑
Mechanismhypothesisoriginal resultbasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

The inducible activator might be a lipo-chitooligosaccharide (LCO) analogue that increases the signal quality of plant-rhizobia signal exchange.

Taxon
soybeanGlycine maxe0
Compound
lipo‐chitooligosaccharide (LCO)e6
Outcome
signal qualitye7

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Glycine max
Glycine max · TaxonPublic domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Serratia proteamaculans 1‐102 (1‐102) promotes soybean–bradyrhizobia nodulation and growth”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–90 · show in text ↑
e6

“The results suggest that this inducible activator might be a lipo‐chitooligosaccharide (LCO) analogue”

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“increasing in the signal quality (the signal‐to‐noise ratio, SNR) of the plant–rhizobia signal exchange process”

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