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The effects of kanamycin and streptomycin added to soil on the survival of transposon Tn5 modified Pseudomonas fluorescens strain R2f were investigated. Kanamycin in high (180 μg g-1 dry soil) or low (18 μg g-1) concentration or streptomycin in low concentration in Ede loamy sand soil had no noticeable effect on inoculant population dynamics in soil and wheat rhizosphere, whereas streptomycin in high concentration had a consistent significant stimulatory effect, in particular in the wheat rhizosphere. Streptomycin exerted its effect by selecting P. fluorescens with Tn5 insertion whilst suppressing the unmodified sensitive parent strain, as evidenced by comparing the behaviour of these two strains in separate and mixed inoculation studies.
Soil textural type influenced the effect of streptomycin on the Tn5 carrying inoculant; the effect was consistently detected in rhizosphere and rhizoplane samples of wheat grown in Ede loamy sand after 7 and 14 days incubation, whereas it was only apparent after 7 days in rhizoplane or rhizosphere (and bulk soil) samples of wheat grown in two silt loam soils. Modification of soil pH by the addition of CaCO3 or bentonite clay resulted in an enhancement of the selective effect of streptomycin by CaCO3 and its abolishment by bentonite clay.
The addition to soil of malic acid or wheat root exudate, but not of glucose, enhanced the streptomycin selective effect on the Tn5-modified P. fluorescens strain. Neither the streptomycin producer Streptomyces griseus nor two non-inhibiting mutants obtained following UV irradiation affected the dynamics of P. fluorescens (chr::Tn5) in soil and wheat rhizosphere.
The effect of streptomycin in soil on inoculant Tn5 carrying bacteria depends on conditions such as soil type, the presence of (wheat) root exudates and the type of available substrate.
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de Oliveira, R.d.G.B., Wolters, A.C. & van Elsas, J. Effects of antibiotics in soil on the population dynamics of transposon Tn5 carrying Pseudomonas fluorescens . Plant Soil 175, 323–333 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00011368
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