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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (33): 131-138.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2025-0016

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Breeding of Highly Efficient Growth-promoting Mutant Strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens CLW17 by Atmospheric and Room Temperature Plasma

CHEN Yanbin(), ZHI Mengtao, BAI Bianxia, JIA Rui, REN Jiahong()   

  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Changzhi College, Changzhi, Shanxi 046011
  • Received:2025-01-10 Revised:2025-03-15 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-12-01

Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to select and breed highly efficient and excellent growth-promoting mutant strains of Pseudomonas fluorescent CLW17, to provide high-quality bacterial strain resources for the production of microbial fertilizer. The wild strain CLW17 with the phosphate-solubilizing and siderophore-producing abilities was used as the starting strain, and the strain was improved by ARTP mutagenesis technology. Through the three-stage screening system of 'qualitative primary screening-quantitative re-screening-molecular identification', the high-efficiency growth-promoting mutant strain was obtained and the mutagenesis conditions were optimized. The results showed that the optimal mutagenesis for CLW17 was as follows: output power of 100 W, irradiation distance of 2 mm, and treatment time of 240 s. Under these conditions, the mortality rate of the strain was 91.67%, and the positive mutation rate was 11.27%. After ARTP mutagenesis, two mutants with high efficiency and excellent growth-promoting characteristics (CLW17-240-2-1 and CLW17-240-3-2) were finally screened out. Compared to the original strain, the phosphate-solubilizing capacity of CLW17-240-2-1 and CLW17-240-3-2 was enhanced by 21.89% and 30.40% respectively, and their siderophore-producing ability was enhanced by 21.27% and 40.29%. 16S rDNA molecular identification confirmed that the two mutants were genetic mutants of CLW17 without exogenous pollution. In this study, the synergistic improvement of the dual growth-promoting traits of CLW17 strain 'phosphate-solubilizing and siderophore-producing' was successfully achieved through ARTP mutagenesis, which provided a technical reference for the directional breeding of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), and also laid a strain foundation for the research and development of microbial fertilizer for trees such as Taxus chinensis var.mairei.

Key words: Pseudomonas fluorescens CLW17, atmospheric and room temperature plasma mutagenesis, phosphorus-solubilizing, siderophore-producing, growth-promoting