Fiziol. rast. genet. 2018, vol. 50, no. 4, 344-357, doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/frg2018.04.344

SELECTION STRATEGY FOR IMPROVED SYMBIOTIC PHENOTYPES OF BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM

Vorobey N.A., Kots S.Ya.

  • Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 31/17 Vasylkivska St., Kyiv, 03022, Ukraine

On the basis of the analysis of known methods of selection of highly active rhizobia strains, a strategy of primary screening of soybean nitrogen-fixing bacteria Bradyrhizobium japonicum based on the symbiotic properties under conditions of model pot experiments at natural light and temperature is presented. Soybeans of the Lisbon variety were inoculated with B. japonicum mutants obtained by transposon mutagenesis using plasmid vector pSUP5011::Tn5. The results of selection of rhizobia for the economic-valuable features (virulence, nodulation, nitrogen fixation activity, stimulation of growth of aboveground biomass) are presented. The differences between B. japonicum transposon mutants in the ability to nodules formation on the roots of the host plant, the dynamics and intensity of the assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen by soybean-rhizobia symbiotic systems are revealed. The expediency of selection of micro-symbionts was pointed out not only at the early period of the formation of symbiotic systems, but also at stages of the most active their functioning. This provides the possibility to select strains with different types of dynamics of nitrogen fixation activity as well as the most aggressive and high-virulent strains in the period of formation of symbiosis. Tn5 mutants with an improved symbiotic phenotype as compared to control strain Bradyrhizobium japonicum 634b were selected.

Keywords: soybean, symbiosis, nitrogen fixation, nodule bacteria, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, nitrogen, efficiency

Fiziol. rast. genet.
2018, vol. 50, no. 4, 344-357

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