Root-secreted bitter triterpene modulates the rhizosphere microbiota to improve plant fitness

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第一作者： Zhong, Yang

作者： Zhong, Yang;Li, Dawei;Cheng, Xu;Huang, Sanwen;Ma, Yongshuo;Zhong, Yang;Liu, Yaoguang;Zhong, Yang;Xun, Weibing;Wang, Xiaohan;Li, Legong;Tian, Shouwei;Zhang, Yancong;Zhou, Yuan;Zhang, Bo;Shang, Yi;Zhao, Guangwei;Chen, Huiming;Osbourn, Anne;Lucas, William J.;Ma, Yongshuo

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期刊名称：NATURE PLANTS （ 影响因子：17.352； 五年影响因子：19.328 ）

ISSN： 2055-026X

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摘要： Root exudates play a key role in modulating the soil microbiota. The export of bitter triterpenes (mediated by a Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion protein) shapes the rhizosphere, leading to robust disease resistance. Underground microbial ecosystems have profound impacts on plant health(1-5). Recently, essential roles have been shown for plant specialized metabolites in shaping the rhizosphere microbiome(6-9). However, the potential mechanisms underlying the root-to-soil delivery of these metabolites remain to be elucidated(10). Cucurbitacins, the characteristic bitter triterpenoids in cucurbit plants (such as melon and watermelon), are synthesized by operon-like gene clusters(11). Here we report two Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) proteins involved in the transport of their respective cucurbitacins, a process co-regulated with cucurbitacin biosynthesis. We further show that the transport of cucurbitacin B from the roots of melon into the soil modulates the rhizosphere microbiome by selectively enriching for two bacterial genera, Enterobacter and Bacillus, and we demonstrate that this, in turn, leads to robust resistance against the soil-borne wilt fungal pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum. Our study offers insights into how transporters for specialized metabolites manipulate the rhizosphere microbiota and thereby affect crop fitness.

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