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Isolation and Characterization of Phosphate Solubilizing Streptomyces Endemic From Sugar Beet Fields Of the Beni-Mellal Region In Morocco

Yassine Aallam
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Driss Dhiba
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Sanaâ Lemriss
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Amal Souiri
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Fatma Karray
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Taoufik El Rasafi
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Nezha Saïdi
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Abdelmajid Haddioui
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Saâd El Kabbaj
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Marie Joëlle Virolle
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Hamdali Hanane
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Version 1 : Received: 7 April 2021 / Approved: 9 April 2021 / Online: 9 April 2021 (13:34:01 CEST)

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Aallam, Y.; Dhiba, D.; Lemriss, S.; Souiri, A.; Karray, F.; Rasafi, T.E.; Saïdi, N.; Haddioui, A.; El Kabbaj, S.; Virolle, M.J.; Hamdali, H. Isolation and Characterization of Phosphate Solubilizing Streptomyces sp. Endemic from Sugar Beet Fields of the Beni-Mellal Region in Morocco. Microorganisms 2021, 9, 914. Aallam, Y.; Dhiba, D.; Lemriss, S.; Souiri, A.; Karray, F.; Rasafi, T.E.; Saïdi, N.; Haddioui, A.; El Kabbaj, S.; Virolle, M.J.; Hamdali, H. Isolation and Characterization of Phosphate Solubilizing Streptomyces sp. Endemic from Sugar Beet Fields of the Beni-Mellal Region in Morocco. Microorganisms 2021, 9, 914.

Abstract

In this research, we isolated and characterized Streptomyces strains, endemic from sugar beet fields of the Beni-Mellal region, able to use natural rock phosphate (RP) and tricalcium phosphate (TCP), as sole phosphate source. Ten Streptomyces isolates yielded a comparable biomass in the presence of these two insoluble phosphate sources, indicating that they were able to extract similar amount of phosphorus (P) from the latter for their own growth. Interestingly, five strains released soluble P in large excess from TCP in their culture broth whereas only two strains, BP, related to Streptomyces bellus and BYC, related to Streptomyces enissocaesilis, released a higher or similar amount of soluble P from RP than from TCP, respectively. This indicated that the rate of P released from these insoluble phosphate sources exceeded its consumption rate for bacterial growth and that most strains solubilized TCP more efficiently than RP. Preliminary results suggested that the solubilization process of BYC, the most efficient RP and TCP solubilizing strain, involves both acidification of the medium and excretion of siderophores. Actinomycete strains possessing such interesting RP solubilizing abilities may constitute a novel kind of intrans beneficial for plant nutrition and more environmentally friendly than chemical fertilizers in current use.

Keywords

Insoluble phosphate; Biosolubilizing; Biofertilizer; Actinobacteria; Sugar beet

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Anatomy and Physiology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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