Spatiotemporal Distribution of Chemical Fertilizer Application and Manure Application Potential in China

Yanli,; WangYuanyuan,; TumbalamPavani,; ZhangTengli,; GaoQiang,; ZhangWenjing,; WeiDaming,; YaaOpoku-Kwanowaa,

doi:10.1089/ees.2018.0486

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“…Legumes obtain most of their nitrogen from rhizobia bacteria residing in root nodules, however, many crop plants including cereals are nonleguminous and cannot form symbiotic associations [ 6 ].To meet the demand of improving crop yield, chemically synthesized nitrogen fertilizers have been widely applied in the world. Unfortunately, overuse of these chemical fertilizers has raised serious environmental problems [ 7 – 9 ]. Engineering of biological nitrogen fixation capacity in bacteria associating with non-legume crops will help to improve agricultural sustainability by reducing the dependence on chemically fertilizers [ 10 – 13 ].…”

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Systematic identification of endogenous strong constitutive promoters from the diazotrophic rhizosphere bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri DSM4166 to improve its nitrogenase activity

Duan

et al. 2023

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Background Biological nitrogen fixation converting atmospheric dinitrogen to ammonia is an important way to provide nitrogen for plants. Pseudomonas stutzeri DSM4166 is a diazotrophic Gram-negative bacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of cereal Sorghum nutans. Endogenous constitutive promoters are important for engineering of the nitrogen fixation pathway, however, they have not been systematically characterized in DSM4166. Results Twenty-six candidate promoters were identified from DSM4166 by RNA-seq analysis. These 26 promoters were cloned and characterized using the firefly luciferase gene. The strengths of nineteen promoters varied from 100 to 959% of the strength of the gentamicin resistance gene promoter. The strongest P12445 promoter was used to overexpress the biological nitrogen fixation pathway-specific positive regulator gene nifA. The transcription level of nitrogen fixation genes in DSM4166 were significantly increased and the nitrogenase activity was enhanced by 4.1 folds determined by the acetylene reduction method. The nifA overexpressed strain produced 359.1 µM of extracellular ammonium which was 25.6 times higher than that produced by the wild-type strain. Conclusions The endogenous strong constitutive promoters identified in this study will facilitate development of DSM4166 as a microbial cell factory for nitrogen fixation and production of other useful compounds.

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