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Plants with different Fe-mobilization properties are known to differ in the amount and kind of Fe-reducing and Fe-chelating compounds exuded by their roots. Although rhizosphere bacteria are known to affect the exudation of organic compounds by the plant roots, their effect on the root exudates of plants differing in Fe-mobilization properties is not known. We studied the effect of Pseudomonas fluorescens, on the exudation of sugars and organic and amino acids by roots of an iron chlorosis-resistant (T3238FER) and a chlorosis-susceptible (T3238fer) tomato mutant. Under sterile conditions two tomato mutants grew equally well and did not differ in the total amount of sugars and organic acid exuded by their roots. More amino acids, however, were exuded by the roots of T3238FER than T323fer. Mutants differed in the amount of oxalic acid and the amino acids Ala, Asp, Gaba, Gln, Gly, His, Hyl, Ile, Leu, Lys, Phe, Pro, and Val exuded by their roots into sterile rooting media. Addition of P. fluorescens to the rooting medium did not affect the growth of T3238FER but stimulated the root growth of chlorosis-susceptible T3238fer, reduced the amounts of glucose, arabinose and fructose but increased the amount of sucrose, reduced the amounts of fumaric, malic and oxalic acid but increased the amounts of citric and succinic acid in the rooting media of both mutants. P. fluorescens resulted in the following changes in the amino acids in the rooting media: reduced the amounts of Gly, Leu, and Lys in T3238FER, and of Asp, Gln, Hyp, and Ile in T3238fer, and increased the amounts of Cys, Glu, His, Hyp, Ile, Phe and Tyr in T3238FER and of Ala, Glu, His, Phe, and Ser in T323fer—in cases more than 40-fold. These differential effects of P. fluorescens in altering the pattern of organic and amino acids compounds with some Fe-chelating properties detected in the rooting medium of these two mutants may indicate that the differences in Fe-chlorosis susceptibility of these tomato mutants may be the result of, or modified by, the interactions between plant roots and rhizosphere microorganisms. We postulate that the Fe-chlorosis susceptibility in plants may be the product of the interactions between soil microorganisms and plant roots, and may not be solely related to the plant per se.
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Mozafar, A., Duss, F. & Oertli, J.J. Effect of Pseudomonas fluorescens on the root exudates of two tomato mutants differently sensitive to Fe chlorosis. Plant Soil 144, 167–176 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00012873
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