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Identification of stress-alleviating strains from the core drought-responsive microbiome of Arabidopsis ecotypes
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Journal Article
Identification of stress-alleviating strains from the core drought-responsive microbiome of Arabidopsis ecotypes
2025
Overview
Plant genetic and metabolic cues are involved in assembling their “core microbiome” under normal growth conditions. However, whether there is a core “stress responsive microbiome” among natural plant ecotypes remains elusive. Drought is the most significant abiotic stress worldwide. Characterizing conserved core root microbiome changes upon drought stress has the potential to increase plant resistance and resilience in agriculture. We screened the drought tolerance of 130 worldwide Arabidopsis ecotypes and chose the extremely drought tolerant and sensitive ecotypes for comparative microbiome studies. We detected diverse shared differentially abundant ASVs, network driver taxa among ecotypes, suggesting the existence of core drought-responsive microbiome changes. We previously identified 1479 microorganisms through high-throughput culturing, and successfully matched diverse core drought responsive ASVs. Our phenotypic assays validated that only those core drought responsive ASVs with higher fold changes in drought tolerant ecotypes were more likely to protect plants from stress. Transcriptome analysis confirmed that a keystone strain, Massilia sp. 22G3, can broadly reshape osmotic stress responses in roots, such as enhancing the expression of water up-taking, ROS scavenging, and immune genes. Our work reveals the existence of a core drought-responsive microbiome and demonstrates its potential role in enhancing plant stress tolerance. This approach helps characterize keystone “core drought responsive” microbes, and we further provided potential mechanisms underlying Massilia sp. 22G3 mediated stress protection. This work also provided a research paradigm for guiding the discovery of core stress-alleviating microbiomes in crops using natural ecotypes (cultivars).
