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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30915-2
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Low phosphorus availability in soils limits plant uptake, but root exudate compounds induced under low P conditions can enhance the ability of bacteria to solubilize P. Threonine and 4-hydroxybutyric acid induced P solubilization in all tested bacterial strains. Application of threonine improved root growth, nutrient concentrations, and availability in soils, suggesting it can promote bacterial solubilization and plant uptake of various nutrients.
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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