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Genomic Features of Mutualistic Plant Bacteria

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Endophytes: Biology and Biotechnology

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity ((SDEB,volume 15))

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Comparative genomics is a powerful technique to identify functional elements accountable for species competence that enables it to thrive in specific environmental niche and for species adaptation to implement particular lifestyles. It also allows insight into genomic island arising from genomic rearrangements. Here, the abundance profile of identified genes, protein families, metabolic pathways, and regulons were computed for endophytes (including nodule-forming plant symbionts), rhizosphere bacteria, and phytopathogens. The lifestyle of endophytes was characterized by significantly overrepresentation of genes encoding for nitrogenase as well as genes involved in the uptake of urea cycle components. The genomes of assigned endophytic bacteria revealed distinct signaling features that differed from those detected among rhizosphere bacteria and phytopathogens. Similar results were also observed for genes encoding proteins involved in transport and secretion systems as well as for transcriptional regulators. Genes involved in chemotaxis receptors are more abundantly represented among phytopathogens than endophytes. Likewise, distinct metabolic functions were enriched for the others plant-associated communities. There was no particular genomic feature that could inhabit common to all genomes in each investigated lifestyle, suggesting that multiple, rather than unique, key features are deployed by the symbionts as strategy to interact with the host plant statically.

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  1. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Leopoldo de Meis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373, CCS, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-599, RJ, Brazil

    Pablo R. Hardoim

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Hardoim, P.R., Hardoim, C.C.P. (2017). Genomic Features of Mutualistic Plant Bacteria. In: Maheshwari, D. (eds) Endophytes: Biology and Biotechnology. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66541-2_5

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