Main Title |
Predictive Model of Conjugative Plasmid Transfer in the Rhizosphere and Phyllosphere. |
Author |
Knudsen, G. R. ;
Walter, M. V. ;
Porteous, L. A. ;
Prince, V. J. ;
Armstrong, J. L. ;
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CORP Author |
Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. |
Publisher |
1988 |
Year Published |
1988 |
Report Number |
EPA/600/J-88/297; |
Stock Number |
PB89-202329 |
Additional Subjects |
Survival ;
Computerized simulation ;
Reprints ;
Plasmids ;
Pseudomonas cepacia ;
Rhizospheres ;
Phyllospheres ;
Genetic conjugation
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
NTIS |
PB89-202329 |
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07/26/2022 |
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Collation |
7p |
Abstract |
A computer simulation model was used to predict the dynamics of survival and conjugation of Pseudomonas cepacia (carrying the transmissible recombinant plasmid R388:Tn1721) with a nonrecombinant recipient strain in simple rhizosphere and phyllosphere microcosms. Plasmid transfer rates were derived for a mass action model, and donor and recipient survival were modeled as exponential growth and decay processes or both. Rate parameters were derived from laboratory studies in which donor and recipient strains were incubated in test tubes with a peat-vermiculite solution or on excised radish or bean leaves in petri dishes. The model predicted donor, recipient, and transconjugant populations in hourly time steps. It was tested in a microcosm planted with radish seeds and inoculated with donor and recipient strains and on leaf surfaces of radish and bean plants also growing in microcosms. Bacteria were periodically enumerated on selective media over 7 to 14 days. An initial rapid increase and a subsequent decline in numbers of transconjugants in the rhizosphere and on leaf surfaces were correctly predicted. |