Expression by Soil Bacteria of Nodulation Genes from Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii
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Jarvis, B. D. W.
RESUMO
Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria from the soil of white clover-ryegrass pastures were screened for their ability to nodulate white clover (Trifolium repens) cultivar Grasslands Huia and for DNA homology with genomic DNA from Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii ICMP2668 (NZP582). Of these strains, 3.2% were able to hybridize with strain ICMP2668 and nodulate white clover and approximately 19% hybridized but were unable to nodulate. Strains which nodulated but did not hybridize with strain ICMP2668 were not detected. DNA from R. leguminosarum biovar trifolii (strain PN165) cured of its symbiotic (Sym) plasmid and a specific nod probe were used to show that the relationship observed was usually due to chromosomal homology. Plasmid pPN1, a cointegrate of the broad-host-range plasmid R68.45 and a symbiotic plasmid pRtr514a, was transferred by conjugation to representative strains of nonnodulating, gram-negative, rod-shaped soil bacteria. Transconjugants which formed nodules were obtained from 6 of 18 (33%) strains whose DNA hybridized with that of PN165 and 1 of 9 (11%) strains containing DNA which did not hybridize with that of PN165. The presence and location of R68.45 and nod genes was confirmed in transconjugants from three of the strains which formed nodules. Similarly, a pLAFR1 cosmid containing nod genes from a derivative of R. leguminosarum biovar trifolii NZP514 formed nodules when transferred to soil bacteria.
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