Correlated production and consumption of chloromethane in the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere

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Farhan Ul Haque, Muhammad, Besaury, Ludovic, Nadalig, Thierry, Bringel, Françoise, Mutterer, Jérôme, Schaller, Hubert and Vuilleumier, Stéphane (2017) Correlated production and consumption of chloromethane in the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere. Scientific Reports, 7. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

Chloromethane (CH3Cl) is a toxic gas mainly produced naturally, in particular by plants, and its emissions contribute to ozone destruction in the stratosphere. Conversely, CH3Cl can be degraded and used as the sole carbon and energy source by specialised methylotrophic bacteria, isolated from a variety of environments including the phyllosphere, i.e. the aerial parts of vegetation. The potential role of phyllospheric CH3Cl-degrading bacteria as a filter for plant emissions of CH3Cl was investigated using variants of Arabidopsis thaliana with low, wild-type and high expression of HOL1 methyltransferase previously shown to be responsible for most of CH3Cl emissions by A. thaliana. Presence and expression of the bacterial chloromethane dehalogenase cmuA gene in the A. thaliana phyllosphere correlated with HOL1 genotype, as shown by qPCR and RT-qPCR. Production of CH3Cl by A. thaliana paralleled HOL1 expression, as assessed by a fluorescence-based bioreporter. The relation between plant production of CH3Cl and relative abundance of CH3Cl-degrading bacteria in the phyllosphere suggests that CH3Cl-degrading bacteria co-determine the extent of plant emissions of CH3Cl to the atmosphere.

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Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Date Deposited: 04 Jan 2018 00:07
Last Modified: 31 Jan 2024 02:16
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65847
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17421-y

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