Paired Medicago receptors mediate broad-spectrum resistance to nodulation by Sinorhizobium meliloti carrying a species-specific gene

Jinge Liu; Ting Wang; Qiulin Qin; Xiaocheng Yu; Shengming Yang; Randy D. Dinkins; Anett Kuczmog; Péter Putnoky; Artur Muszyński; Joel S. Griffitts; Attila Kereszt; Hongyan Zhu

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Paired Medicago receptors mediate broad-spectrum resistance to nodulation by Sinorhizobium meliloti carrying a species-specific gene

Jinge Liu, Ting Wang, Qiulin Qin, Xiaocheng Yu, Shengming Yang, Randy D. Dinkins, Anett Kuczmog, Péter Putnoky, Artur Muszyński, Joel S. Griffitts, Attila Kereszt, Hongyan Zhu

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Plants have evolved the ability to distinguish between symbiotic and pathogenic microbial signals. However, potentially cooperative plant–microbe interactions often abort due to incompatible signaling. The Nodulation Specificity 1 (NS1) locus in the legume Medicago truncatula blocks tissue invasion and root nodule induction by many strains of the nitrogen-fixing symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti. Controlling this strain-specific nodulation blockade are two genes at the NS1 locus, designated NS1a and NS1b, which encode malectin-like leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases. Expression of NS1a and NS1b is induced upon inoculation by both compatible and incompatible Sinorhizobium strains and is dependent on host perception of bacterial nodulation (Nod) factors. Both presence/absence and sequence polymorphisms of the paired receptors contribute to the evolution and functional diversification of the NS1 locus. A bacterial gene, designated rns1, is required for activation of NS1-mediated nodulation restriction. rns1 encodes a type I-secreted protein and is present in approximately 50% of the nearly 250 sequenced S. meliloti strains but not found in over 60 sequenced strains from the closely related species Sinorhizobium medicae. S. meliloti strains lacking functional rns1 are able to evade NS1-mediated nodulation blockade.

Original language	English
Article number	e2214703119
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	119
Issue number	51
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2214703119
State	Published - Dec 20 2022

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We thank E. Kondorosi for helpful comments on the manuscript; and P. Tiffin (University of Minnesota), B. Scharf (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), and A. Mengoni (University of Florence, Italy) for providing the rhizobial strains. This work was supported by US Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grant 2014-67013-21573 (to H.Z.), US National Science Foundation Grant IOS-1758037 (to H.Z. and A.M.), US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement Grant 5850428003 (to H.Z.), Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office Grants K128486 and K134841 (to A. Kereszt), and China Scholarship Council (to T.W.). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank E. Kondorosi for helpful comments on the manuscript; and P.Tiffin (University of Minnesota),B.Scharf (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), and A. Mengoni (University of Florence, Italy) for providing the rhizobial strains. This work was supported by US Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grant 2014-67013-21573 (to H.Z.), US National Science Foundation Grant IOS-1758037 (to H.Z. and A.M.), US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement Grant 5850428003 (to H.Z.), Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office Grants K128486 and K134841 (to A. Kereszt), and China Scholarship Council (to T.W.).

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	IOS-1758037
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program
U.S. Department of Agriculture
US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative	2014-67013-21573
US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
Minnesota State University-Mankato
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
USDA-Agricultural Research Service	5850428003
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Università degli Studi di Firenze
China Scholarship Council
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal	K134841, K128486
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal

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Medicago
nodulation
receptors
specificity
symbiosis

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Liu, J., Wang, T., Qin, Q., Yu, X., Yang, S., Dinkins, R. D., Kuczmog, A., Putnoky, P., Muszyński, A., Griffitts, J. S., Kereszt, A., & Zhu, H. (2022). Paired Medicago receptors mediate broad-spectrum resistance to nodulation by Sinorhizobium meliloti carrying a species-specific gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(51), Article e2214703119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2214703119

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