Root exudate-derived compounds stimulate the phosphorus solubilizing ability of bacteria.

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Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Center for Root and Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

Published: March 2023

Low phosphorus (P) availability in soils is a major challenge for sustainable food production, as most soil P is often unavailable for plant uptake and effective strategies to access this P are limited. Certain soil occurring bacteria and root exudate-derived compounds that release P are in combination promising tools to develop applications that increase phosphorus use efficiency in crops. Here, we studied the ability of root exudate compounds (galactinol, threonine, and 4-hydroxybutyric acid) induced under low P conditions to stimulate the ability of bacteria to solubilize P. Galactinol, threonine, and 4-hydroxybutyric acid were incubated with the P solubilizing bacterial strains Enterobacter cloacae, Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes, and Bacillus thuringiensis under either inorganic (calcium phosphate) or organic (phytin) forms of plant-unavailable P. Overall, we found that the addition of individual root exudate compounds did not support bacterial growth rates. However, root exudates supplemented to the different bacterial appeared to enhance P solubilizing activity and overall P availability. Threonine and 4-hydroxybutyric acid induced P solubilization in all three bacterial strains. Subsequent exogenous application of threonine to soils improved the root growth of corn, enhanced nitrogen and P concentrations in roots and increased available levels of potassium, calcium and magnesium in soils. Thus, it appears that threonine might promote the bacterial solubilization and plant-uptake of a variety of nutrients. Altogether, these findings expand on the function of exuded specialized compounds and propose alternative approaches to unlock existing phosphorus reservoirs of P in crop lands.

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