Fractionation and Estimation of Particle-Attached and Unattached Bradyrhizobium japonicum Strains in Soils
AUTOR(ES)
Ozawa, Takashi
RESUMO
Rhizobial cells attached or unattached to soil particles were estimated. Nonsterile soils into which antibiotic-resistant mutants of Bradyrhizobium japonicum had been introduced were fractionated by a centrifugation technique into two fractions: A, which contained mainly rhizobial cells attached to soil particles, and F, which contained mainly rhizobial cells unattached to them. Rhizobial counts decreased in both fractions during incubation of the soil at 30°C, with a concomitant decrease in the proportion of the count of fraction F to that of fraction A. Sonication of fraction A of the soil incubated for more than 3 weeks caused an increase in the rhizobial count. The ratio of the count of fraction A estimated by the plant infection method to that estimated by the dilution plate method increased after 5 days of soil incubation. More than 90% of the indigenous rhizobia in an agricultural field existed in fraction A. These results suggest that the majority of rhizobial cells are attached to soil particles.
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