SpringerLink
Log in

Psychrotrophs of the genus Janthinobacterium with potential to weather potassium aluminosilicate mineral

  • Short Reports
  • Published:
3 Biotech Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

In the present investigation, five strains of Janthinobacterium obtained from Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh, India along with one strain of Bacillus decolorationis (IARI-SL-13) were screened qualitatively and quantitatively for their ability to solubilize K at different temperatures ranging from 5 to 30 °C. All the selected strains do not produce violet colonies, instead produced pink or red coloured colonies. In a plate assay, among all the strains tested, Janthinobacterium sp. IARI-R-81 was most efficient in solubilization of K at lower temperatures of 5 and 10 °C and was closely followed by Janthinobacterium lividum (IARI-R-71). Janthinobacterium sp. IARI-R-70 did not produce any detectable halo zones at all temperatures except 10 and 25 °C. Quantitative analysis revealed that all the selected pigment-producing strains could solubilize potassium-bearing mineral at low temperature (5 °C). J. lividum IARI-R-50 strain was most efficient in solubilizing K (29.87 ± 1.22 µg K/mL) from its mineral at 5 °C. This strain was typical as it solubilized almost the same amount of K both at 5 and 30 °C indicating its capability to adapt to different temperatures. All other strains showed a significantly higher concentration of solubilized K at 30 °C as compared to other temperatures tested. The non-pigmented B. decolorationis showed solubilization only at 25 and 30 °C and the concentration of K solubilized at 30 °C was significantly higher than at 25 °C. There was no correlation between pigment production and solubilization of potassium. This is the first report depicting solubilization trait of members of genus Janthinobacterium and confirms its evolutionary relatedness to Collimonads.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
EUR 32.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or Ebook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price includes VAT (Germany)

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3

References

  • Aleksandrov V, Blagodyr R, Ilev I (1967) Liberation of phosphoric acid from apatite by silicate bacteria. Mikrobiol Z 29:111–114

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Andreyeva IN, Ogorodnikova TI (2015) Pigmentation of Serratia marcescens and spectral properties of prodigiosin. Microbiology 84:28–33

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bagyalakshmi B, Ponmurugan P, Balamurugan A (2017) Potassium solubilization, plant growth promoting substances by potassium solubilizing bacteria (KSB) from southern Indian Tea plantation soil. Biocatal Agric Biotechnol 12:116–124

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bakhshandeh E, Pirdashti H, Lendeh KS (2017) Phosphate and potassium-solubilizing bacteria effect on the growth of rice. Ecol Eng 103:164–169

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baricz A, Teban A, Chiriac CM, Szekeres E, Farkas A, Nica M, Dascalu A, Oprisan C, LAvin P, Coman C (2018) Investigating the potential use of an Antarctic variant of Janthinobacterium lividum for tackling antimicrobial resistance in a one health approach. Sci Rep 8:15272

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bennett P, Choi W, Rogera J (1998) Microbial destruction of feldspars. Miner Manag 8:149–150

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bottos EM, Vincent WF, Greer CW, Whyte LG (2008) Prokaryotic diversity of arctic ice shelf microbial mats. Environ Microbiol 10:950–966

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Chattopadhyay M, Jagannadham M (2001) Maintenance of membrane fluidity in Antarctic bacteria. Polar Biol 24:386–388

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Darshan N, Manonmani HK (2017) Prodigiosin and its potential applications. J Food Sci Technol 52:5393–5407

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Feller G, Narinx E, Arpigny JL, Aittaleb M, Baise E, Genicot S, Gerday C (1996) Enzymes from psychrophilic organisms. FEMS Microbiol Rev 18:189–202

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Felsenstein J (1985) Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39:783–791

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gillis M, De Ley J (1993) The genera Chromobacterium and Janthinobacterium. In: Balows A, Trüper HW, Dworkin M, Harder W, Schleifer KH (eds) The Prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria, ecophysiology, isolation, identification, and applications, 2nd edn, vol 2. Springer, New York, pp 2591–2600

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldstein AH (1994) Involvement of the quinoprotein glucose dehydrogenase in the solubilization of exogenous phosphates by gram-negative bacteria phosphate in microorganisms: cellular and molecular biology. ASM Press, Washington, DC, pp 197–203

    Google Scholar 

  • Hu X, Chen J, Guo J (2006) Two phosphate-and potassium-solubilizing bacteria isolated from Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang, China. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 22:983–990

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Huang X, Han B (2014) Natural variations and genome-wide association studies in crop plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol 65:531–551

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Jackson ML (1973) Soil chemical analysis. Prentic Hall (India) Pvt Ltd, New Delhi

    Google Scholar 

  • Kanelli M, Mandic M, Kalakona M, Vasilakos S, Kekos D, Nikodinovic-Runic J, Topakas E (2018) Microbial production of violacein and process optimization for dyeing polyamides fabricswith acquired antimicrobial properties. Front Microbiol 9:1495

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kumar S, Stecher G, Tamura K (2016) MEGA7: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. Mol Biol Evol 33:1870–1874

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kumar R, Acharya V, Singh D, Kumar S (2018) Strategies for high-altitude adaptation revealed from high-quality draft genome of non-violacein producing Janthinobacterium lividum ERGS5: 01. Stand Genom Sci 13:11

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lin Q-M, Rao Z-H, Sun Y-X, Yao J, **ng L-J (2002) Identification and practical application of silicate-dissolving bacteria. Agric Sci China 1:81–85

    Google Scholar 

  • Lincoln SP, Fermor TR, Tindall B (1999) Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum sp. nov., a soft rot pathogen of Agaricus bisporus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 49:1577–1589

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lipson DA, Monson RK, Schmidt SK, Weintraub MN (2009) The trade-off between growth rate and yield in microbial communities and the consequences for under-snow soil respiration in a high elevation coniferous forest. Biogeochemistry 95:23–35

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Liu Y et al (2009) Culturable bacteria in glacial meltwater at 6,350 m on the East Rongbuk Glacier, Mount Everest. Extremophiles 13:89–99

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Llansola-Portoles MJ, Pascal AA, Robert B (2017) Electronic and vibrational properties of carotenoids: from in vitro to in vivo. J R Soc Interface 14:20170504

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Niederberger TD, McDonald IR, Hacker AL, Soo RM, Barrett JE, Wall DH, Cary SC (2008) Microbial community composition in soils of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Environ Microbiol 10:1713–1724

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • O’Brien K, Perron GG, Jude BA (2018) Draft genome sequence of a red-pigmented Janthinobacterium sp. native to the Hudson Valley Watershed. Genome Announc 6:e01429–e01417

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rajawat MVS, Singh S, Tyagi SP, Saxena AK (2016) A modified plate assay for rapid screening of potassium-solubilizing bacteria. Pedosphere 26:768–773

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rassner SM, Anesio AM, Girdwood SE, Hell K, Gokul JK, Whitworth DE, Edwards A (2016) Can the bacterial community of a high Arctic glacier surface escape viral control? Fron Microbiol 7:956

    Google Scholar 

  • Richards JE, Bates TE (1988) Studies on the potassium-supplying capacities of southern Ontario soils. II. Nitric acid extraction of nonexchangeable K and its availability to crops. Can J Soil Sci 68:199–208

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Russell NJ (2009) Psychrophily and resistance to low temperature. In: Gerday C, Glansdorff N (eds) Extremophiles, encyclopaedia of life support systems, vol 2. EOLSS Publishers Co Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp 1–32

    Google Scholar 

  • Russell NJ, Nichols DS (1999) Polyunsaturated fatty acids in marine bacteria—a dogma rewritten. Microbiol J 145:767–779

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Saitou N, Nei M (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 4:406–425

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Schloss PD et al (2010) Psychrotrophic strain of Janthinobacterium lividum from a cold Alaskan soil produces prodigiosin. DNA Cell Biol 29:533–541

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Shivaji S, Ray M, Kumar GS, Reddy G, Saisree L, Wynn-Williams D (1991) Identification of Janthinobacterium lividum from the soils of the islands of Scotia Ridge and from Antarctic peninsula. Polar Biol 11:267–271

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shoemaker WR, Muscarella ME, Lennon JT (2015) Genome sequence of the soil bacterium Janthinobacterium sp. KBS0711. Genome Announc 3:e00689–e00615

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sparks DL, Huang PM (1985) Physical chemistry of soil potassium. In: Munson RD (ed) Potassium in agriculture. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA, Madison, pp 201–265

    Google Scholar 

  • Suman R, Sharma P, Gupta S, Sourirajan A, Dev K (2015) A novel psychrophilic Janthinobacterium lividum MMPP4 isolated from Manimahesh Lake of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, India. J Biochem Technol 6:846–851

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Toba T, Kotani T, Adachi S (1991) Capsular polysaccharide of a slime-forming Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris LAPT 3001 isolated from Swedish fermented milk ‘långfil’. Int J Food Microbiol 12:167–171

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Uroz S, Calvaruso C, Turpault M-P, Frey-Klett P (2009) Mineral weathering by bacteria: ecology, actors and mechanisms. Trends Microbiol 17:378–387

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Welch SA, Vandevivere P (1994) Effect of microbial and other naturally occurring polymers on mineral dissolution. Geomicrobiol J 12:227–238

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang C, Kong F (2014) Isolation and identification of potassium-solubilizing bacteria from tobacco rhizospheric soil and their effect on tobacco plants. Appl Soil Ecol 82:18–25

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the Division of Microbiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology for providing the facilities and financial support, to undertake the investigations.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Kushmaur, Maunath Bhanjan, Uttar Pradesh, 275103, India

    Mahendra Vikram Singh Rajawat & Anil Kumar Saxena

  2. Amity Institute of Microbial Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201303, India

    Mahendra Vikram Singh Rajawat & Rajni Singh

  3. Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, 848125, India

    Devendra Singh

Authors
  1. Mahendra Vikram Singh Rajawat
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Rajni Singh
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Devendra Singh
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Anil Kumar Saxena
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Contributions

MR and AS designed the experiment. RS, MR and AS participated in coordination and interpretation of results. MR and AS wrote the manuscript with contributions of RS and DS. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Anil Kumar Saxena.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest

Authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Rajawat, M.V.S., Singh, R., Singh, D. et al. Psychrotrophs of the genus Janthinobacterium with potential to weather potassium aluminosilicate mineral. 3 Biotech 9, 142 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-019-1672-1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-019-1672-1

Keywords

Search

Navigation