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Unveiling novel insights into haloarchaea (Halolamina pelagica CDK2) for alleviation of drought stress in wheat

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Plant growth promoting microorganisms have various implications for plant growth and drought stress alleviation; however, the roles of archaea have not been explored in detail. Herein, present study was aimed for elucidating potential of haloarchaea (Halolamina pelagica CDK2) on plant growth under drought stress. Results showed that haloarchaea inoculated wheat plants exhibited significant improvement in total chlorophyll (100%) and relative water content (30.66%) compared to the uninoculated water-stressed control (30% FC). The total root length (2.20-fold), projected area (1.60-fold), surface area (1.52-fold), number of root tips (3.03-fold), number of forks (2.76-fold) and number of links (1.45-fold) were significantly higher in the inoculated plants than in the uninoculated water stressed control. Additionally, the haloarchaea inoculation resulted in increased sugar (1.50-fold), protein (2.40-fold) and activity of antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (1.93- fold), ascorbate peroxidase (1.58-fold), catalase (2.30-fold), peroxidase (1.77-fold) and glutathione reductase (4.70-fold), while reducing the accumulation of proline (46.45%), glycine betaine (35.36%), lipid peroxidation (50%), peroxide and superoxide radicals in wheat leaves under water stress. Furthermore, the inoculation of haloarchaea significantly enhanced the expression of stress-responsive genes (DHN, DREB, L15, and TaABA-8OH) and wheat vegetative growth under drought stress over the uninoculated water stressed control. These results provide novel insights into the plant-archaea interaction for plant growth and stress tolerance in wheat and pave the way for future research in this area.

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AKS, RK and DS acknowledge Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi for the financial support through NASF project. HC acknowledges the support under the project “Deciphering molecular mechanism for eliciting drought tolerance in model plant by drought stress alleviating bacteria” funded by ICAR-NBAIM. The authors acknowledge the infrastructural facility provided by ICAR-NBAIM, Mau to conduct the experiments presented in the manuscript. Devendra Singh is also thankful to ICAR-CAZRI, Jodhpur for institutional support during research programme.

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    Devendra Singh, Hillol Chakdar & Anil Kumar Saxena

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Conceptualization: A.K. Saxena and Rajeev Kaushik; Data curation: Devendra Singh, Hillol Chakdar; Formal analysis: Devendra Singh; Funding acquisition: A.K. Saxena, Rajeev Kaushik; Investigation: Devendra Singh, Hillol Chakdar; Methodology: Devendra Singh, Hillol Chakdar; Project administration: A.K. Saxena, Rajeev Kaushik; Resources: Hillol Chakdar; Software: Devendra Singh, Supervision: A.K. Saxena, Hillol Chakdar; Validation: A.K. Saxena, Hillol Chakdar; Visualization: A.K. Saxena, Hillol Chakdar, Roles/Writing - original draft: Devendra Singh; Writing - review & editing: A.K. Saxena, Hillol Chakdar,

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Supplementary Material 1: Supplementary Table 1. Primers used for qPCR

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Supplementary Material 2: Supplementary Fig.1. Pot experiment for exploring the effect of haloarchaea (Halolamina pelagica CDK2) on morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular traits of wheat under drought stress

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Supplementary Material 3: Supplementary Fig.2. Effect of haloarchaea (Halolamina pelagica CDK2) inoculation on wheat root architecture

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Singh, D., Kaushik, R., Chakdar, H. et al. Unveiling novel insights into haloarchaea (Halolamina pelagica CDK2) for alleviation of drought stress in wheat. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 39, 328 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-023-03781-3

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