Indole-3-Acetic Acid Production, Solubilization of Insoluble Metal Minerals and Metal Tolerance of Some Sclerodermatoid Fungi Collected from Northern Thailand
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Ann Microbiol (2014) 64:707–720 DOI 10.1007/s13213-013-0706-x ORIGINAL ARTICLE Indole-3-acetic acid production, solubilization of insoluble metal minerals and metal tolerance of some sclerodermatoid fungi collected from northern Thailand Jaturong Kumla & Nakarin Suwannarach & Boonsom Bussaban & Kenji Matsui & Saisamorn Lumyong Received: 31 January 2013 /Accepted: 1 August 2013 /Published online: 18 August 2013 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and the University of Milan 2013 Abstract Sclerodermatoid fungi basidiomes were collected Keywords Ectomycorrhizal fungi . Phytohormone . Toxic from northern Thailand and pure cultures were isolated. The metal . Pure culture morphology and molecular characteristics identified them as Astraeus odoratus, Phlebopus portentosus, Pisolithus albus and Scleroderma sinnamariense. This study investigated the Introduction in vitro ability of selected fungi to produce indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), to solubilize different toxic metal (Co, Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn)- Ectomycorrhizal fungi form a mutualistic relationship with containing minerals, and metal tolerance. The results indicated plants, in which the fungi can enhance a plant's nutrient and that all fungi are able to produce IAA in liquid medium. The water uptake, increase tolerance to environmental stresses, optimum temperature for IAA production of all fungi was increase the photosynthetic rate of the plant and protect 30 °C, and the optimum concentration of L-tryptophan of against pathogens (Brundrett et al. 1996; Chung et al. 2002; Astraeus odoratus, Pisolithus albus and Scleroderma Makita et al. 2012). Ectomycorrhizal fungi include more than − sinnamariense was 2 mg ml 1. The highest IAA yield (65.29 7,000 reported species (Taylor and Alexander 2005). The − ±1.17 μgml 1) was obtained from Phlebopus portentosus after sclerodermatoid fungal group is one of ectomycorrhizal fungi 40 days of cultivation in culture medium supplemented with aggregated based on phylogenetic analysis, and the group − 4mgml1 of L-tryptophan. The biological activity tests of belongs to the suborder Sclerodermatineae,orderBoletales fungal IAA showed that it can simulate coleoptile elongation, (Binder and Hibbett 2006; Wilson et al. 2011). The fungi in and increase seed germination and root length of tested plants. In the genera Astraeus, Boletinellus, Calostoma, Phlebopus, addition, the metal tolerance and solubilizing activities varied for Pisolithus and Scleroderma have been classified as members different minerals and fungal species. The presence of metal of the sclerodermatoid fungi (Watling 2006). However, the minerals affected fungal growth, and cobalt carbonate showed mechanisms of root morphological changes caused by the highest toxicity. The solubilization index decreased when the ectomycorrhizal fungi are not yet understood. One possible concentration of metal minerals increased. Astraeus odoratus mechanism is that plant growth regulating phytohormores showed the lowest tolerance to metals. This is the first report of such as auxin, cytokinins, ethylene and gibberellin-like sub- in vitro IAA production, solubilization of insoluble metal min- stances are produced (Strelczyck and Pokojska-Burdziej erals and metal tolerance abilities of the tested fungi. 1984;BarkerandTagu2000). Auxins are phytohormones widely present in most plants, J. Kumla : N. Suwannarach : B. Bussaban : S. Lumyong (*) and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is the most active auxin. IAA is Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, responsible for the regulation of cell elongation, cell division, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand cell differentiation and root initiation (Teale et al. 2006; Zhao e-mail: [email protected] 2010). IAA, which is a product of L-tryptophan metabolism, K. Matsui is produced not only in plants, but also by microorganisms, Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of including bacteria and fungi (Hasan 2002; Chung and Tzeng Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan 2004; Ahmad et al. 2005; Tsavkelova et al. 2007; Apine and Jadhav 2011). Several studies reported that IAA produced K. Matsui Department of Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, from microorganisms, including those in rhizospheric soil, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan endophytic microorganisms and mycorrhizal fungi, has the 708 Ann Microbiol (2014) 64:707–720 ability to improve and promote plant growth (Niemi et al. Scleroderma sinnamariense, were surveyed and collected 2002; Tsavkelova et al. 2007;Khamnaetal.2010;Chaiharn from mid-April to the end of July, 2008−2010, in Chaing and Lumyong 2011; Chutima and Lumyong 2012;Zaghian Mai and Chiang Rai Provinces, Thailand (Table 1). After et al. 2012). Many ectomycorrhizas, such as Amanita return to the Research Laboratory for Excellence in muscaria, Cenococcum graniforme, Laccaria bicolor, Sustainable Development of Biological Resources, Faculty Paxillus involutus, Pisolithus tinctorius, Rhizopogon luteolus, of Science, Chiang Mai University, the mycelia were isolated Suillus luteus, Suillus bovinus, Tuber borchii and T. from each basidiome by aseptically removing a small piece of melanosporum,werereportedtoproduceIAAinpureculture mycelium from the inside, and transferring it to modified (Frankenberger and Poth 1987; Rudawska and Kieliszewska- Melin-Norkans (MMN) medium (0.05 g CaCl2,0.025g Rokicka 1997; Karabaghli et al. 1998; Splivallo et al. 2009). NaCl, 0.15 g MgSO4·7H2O, 0.012 g FeCl3·6H2O, 0.001 g However, there is still a need to do further research on IAA thiamine HCl, 10.0 g malt extract, 0.25 g NH4H2PO4,0.5g produced by ectomycorrhizal fungi. KH2PO4, 2.5 g glucose and 15.0 g agar per liter of distilled Toxicity of metals in soil is a major constraint affecting water, pH 6.0) and incubating the isolated plates at 30 °C in plant growth in a number of natural or managed ecosystems. the dark. The mycelia emerging from these tissue samples However, plants that can prevent the metal toxicity in soil by were transferred to a new fresh MMN medium. Each parallel phytoremediation processes have great potential for helping culture was kept in either sterile distilled water at 4 °C or 20 % other plants withstand the metal stress (Mapelli et al. 2012; glycerol at −20 °C for long-term preservation. Rajkumar et al. 2012). Moreover, rhizosphere microbes de- Macroscopic and microscopic characteristics were used to serve special attention because they can directly improve both identify the basidiomes. In addition, molecular methods were phytoremediation processes and plant growth (Gadd 2004, used to confirm the pure culture isolated from basidiome. 2010; Rajkumar et al. 2012). Similarly, ectomycorrhizal plants Genomic DNA was extracted according to a CTAB method can grow better in metal contaminated soil than non- (Kumla et al. 2012) and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) ectomycorrhizal plants. Several studies have concluded that region of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) was amplified using ITS4 ectomycorrhizal fungi are able to protect the roots against and ITS5 primers (White et al. 1990)underthefollowing metal toxicity and increase the tolerance of their hosts in thermal conditions: 95 °C for 2 min, 30 cycles of 95 °C for metal-contaminated soil (Jentschke and Godbold 2000;Van 30 s, 50 °C for 30 s, 72 °C for 1 min and 72 °C for 10 min. The Tichelen et al. 2001). The mechanisms by which fungi are purified PCR products were directly sequenced. Sequencing able to deal with these metals are numerous and varied in their reactions were performed, and the sequences were automati- action, e.g. solubilization, extracellular metal sequestration cally determined in the genetic analyzer (1ST Base, Malaysia) and precipitation, metal binding to the fungal cell walls or using the PCR primers mentioned above. Sequences of each sequestration (Gadd 1993, 2004).Theefficiencyofprotection sclerodermatoid fungus and previously published sequences differs between distinct isolates of ectomycorrhizal fungi and from GenBank were aligned using Clustal X (Thomson et al. different toxic metals (Meharg and Cairney 2000). Moreover, 1997). Phylogenetic analysis was performed using PAUP* many ectomycorrhizal fungi have the ability to solubilize 4.0b10 (Swofford 2002) with the maximum-parsimony analy- insoluble toxic metal minerals, e.g. Al, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn, sis. In analysis, all characters were equally weighted and gaps and tolerate metals in pure culture (Tam 1995; Blaudez et al. were treated as missing data. Heuristic search with tree- 2000; Ray et al. 2005; Fomina et al. 2005). The purpose of this bisection–reconnection branch swapping was implemented study was to investigate the ability of the sclerodermatoid with 1,000 replicates of random-addition sequence. Maxtrees fungi, Astraeus odoratus, Phlebopus portentosus, Pisolithus was set to auto-increase. Collapse of branch occurred if max- albus and Scleroderma sinnamariense, collected from north- imum length was zero. Bootstrap analysis was conducted with ern Thailand, to produce IAA in vitro. The optimal conditions 1,000 replicates under the heuristic search (Felsenstein 1985). for IAA production and the biological effects of fungal IAA Tree length, consistency index (CI), retention index (RI), were examined. Moreover, the ability of these fungi to solu- rescaled consistency index (RC), and homoplasy index (HI) bilize insoluble toxic metal minerals and to tolerate metal in were calculated for all the trees generated under different solid culture was investigated. optimality criteria.