珪藻の窒素固定に根粒菌が関与している可能性が示唆される(Rhizobial bacterium helps diatom to bind nitrogen)

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2024-05-09 マックス・プランク研究所

珪藻の窒素固定に根粒菌が関与している可能性が示唆される(Rhizobial bacterium helps diatom to bind nitrogen)The Rhizobial nitrogen fixing symbionts (fluorescently-labeled in orange and green using genetic probes) residing inside diatoms collected from the tropical North Atlantic. The nucleus of the diatom is shown in bright blue.
© MPI f. Marine Microbiology/ Mertcan Esti

ドイツのマックスプランク海洋微生物学研究所の科学者たちは、海洋植物である珪藻が大気中の窒素をアンモニウムに変換する根粒菌と同様の共生関係を持つことを発見しました。この発見は、海洋の窒素固定における長年の謎を解明し、農業への応用可能性も秘めています。研究チームは北大西洋で海水サンプルを採取し、新たな共生体「Candidatus Tectiglobus diatomicola」を特定しました。この共生体は珪藻と窒素を交換し、海洋の生産性を支える重要な役割を果たしています。このパートナーシップは世界中の海で見られ、特にシアノバクテリアが少ない地域で重要です。

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根粒菌と珪藻の共生が海洋で不足する窒素を固定する Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean

Bernhard Tschitschko,Mertcan Esti,Miriam Philippi,Abiel T. Kidane,Sten Littmann,Katharina Kitzinger,Daan R. Speth,Shengjie Li,Alexandra Kraberg,Daniela Tienken,Hannah K. Marchant,Boran Kartal,Jana Milucka,Wiebke Mohr & Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Nature  Published:09 May 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07495-w

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Abstract

Nitrogen (N2) fixation in oligotrophic surface waters is the main source of new nitrogen (N) to the ocean1 and plays a key role in fueling the biological carbon pump2. Oceanic N2 fixation is almost exclusively attributed to cyanobacteria, even though genes encoding nitrogenase, the enzyme fixing N2 into ammonia, are widespread among marine bacteria and archaea3-5. Little is known about these non-cyanobacterial N2-fixers and direct proof that they can fix N in the ocean is missing. Here we report the discovery of a non-cyanobacterial N2-fixing symbiont, Candidatus Tectiglobus diatomicola, which provides its diatom host with fixed-N in return for photosynthetic carbon. The N2-fixing symbiont belongs to the order Rhizobiales and its association with a unicellular diatom expands the known hosts for this order beyond the well-known N2-fixing rhizobia-legume symbioses on land6. Our results show that the rhizobia-diatom symbiosis can contribute as much fixed-N as cyanobacterial N2-fixers in the tropical North Atlantic, and that they may be responsible for N2 fixation in the vast regions of the ocean where cyanobacteria are too rare to account for the measured rates.

生物環境工学
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