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17 th <strong>International</strong> Congress on <strong>Nitrogen</strong> <strong>Fixation</strong><br />
Fremantle, Western Australia<br />
27 November – 1 December 2011<br />
Title Endophytic colonization of sweet potato by a diazotrophic bradyrhizobia<br />
Authors Yoshinari Ohwaki 1 and Junko Terakado-Tonooka 1,2<br />
Poster Board Number 34<br />
1 NARO Agricultural Research Centre, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan<br />
2 JSPS Research Fellow, 8 Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8472, Japan<br />
Biological nitrogen fixation has been suggested as a potential source of nitrogen to sweet potato. In the present<br />
study, endophytic diazotrophs were isolated from surface-sterilized stems and tubers of field-grown sweet potato<br />
and characterized. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that the isolates belong to the genera of<br />
Bradyrhizobium, Pseudomonas and Paenibacillus. <strong>Nitrogen</strong>-fixing capacity of the isolates was confirmed by<br />
sequence analysis of the PCR-amplified fragment of nifH gene and acetylene reduction activity in the semi-solid<br />
Rennie medium. The phylogenetic tree based on nifH gene sequences was consistent with 16s rRNA gene<br />
phylogeny, and all the isolates exhibited nitrogenase activity. Re-colonization ability of Bradyrhizobium as<br />
endophyte was assessed in the laboratory conditions. Further, the influence of nitrogen on the endophytic<br />
colonization of the isolate was examined. Internal population of the Bradyrhizobium in surface-sterilized leaves,<br />
stems, petioles and roots of sweet potato was in the range of 10 3 to 10 5 CFU per g fresh weight by 24 days after<br />
inoculation to the roots. In contrast, none of the uninoculated control plants showed any infection of the bacteria.<br />
The amount of nitrogen applied to the media had only a small effect on the internal population of the endophytes<br />
in sweet potato. Colonization in the stems after inoculation of the Bradyrhizobium to the roots as assessed by<br />
PCR-amplification of the nifH gene fragments was also observed in sunflower, rice, soybean and maize.<br />
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2011