Diversity and genetic characterization of endophytic microbial communities associated with sugarcane / Diversidade e caracterização genética de comunidades microbianas endofíticas associadas à cana-de-açúcar

AUTOR(ES)

Rodrigo Mendes

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

In Brazil, the sugarcane is one of the most important cultivated crops. The sugarcane has received increased interest in the last years because of increase of the cultivated area and ethanol production to be used as biofuel. Considering its economical importance and the possibility of the use of the genetically modified plants; this crop has become the aim of current research for productivity and sustainability. In this context, the work on microbial communities associated with sugarcane is remarkable, because both, these communities play important functional role in the interaction with the plant, and studies performed in tropical conditions are limited as well. Fungal and bacterial communities associated with genetically modified sugarcane IMI-1 and its conventional isoline SP80-1842 were systematically isolated from plants cultivated in an experimental area in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. The fungal communities associated with sugarcane were accessed by means of cultivation approach and PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; the results revealed that these communities are not affected by transgeny. The microbial communitiesdiversity was characterized and identified by using molecular tools. The fungus Fusarium moniliforme showed high frequency in association with the plant and it was observed that the endopolygalacturonase gene, pgIII, plays important role in order to determine the sort of association, either endophytic or pathogenic, between F. moniliforme and the host. The Burkholderia cepacia complex is an integral part of the endophytic bacterial community of sugarcane in Brazil and isolates of this complex are able to control F. moniliforme growth. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that the endophytic Burkholderia are closely related to clinical isolates of the B. cepacia complex isolated from cystic fibrosis patients.

ASSUNTO(S)

fusarium moniliforme microrganismos endofíticos organismos geneticamente modificados. microbial communities sugarcane fungos burkholderia cepacia complex. bactérias cana-de-açúcar

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