ArticleThe ISME journal2025
Hypoxia induces phenotypic and metabolic shifts in endophytic Flavobacterium sp. 98.
Article in The ISME journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Oxygen plays a crucial role in shaping microbial physiology, functions, and behavior. Endophytic bacteria, residing within plant tissues, inhabit microenvironments where oxygen availability can be limited. However, the magnitude of hypoxic conditions in the endosphere and how these affect functional microbial traits are largely unknown. Here, we showed with a microsensor that oxygen levels in roots of sugar beet seedlings drop drastically to variable, low oxygen levels when going from epidermal to endodermal root tissue into the vasculature. Subsequently, we investigated phenotypic and metabolic responses of endophytic Flavobacterium sp. 98 at oxygen levels of 100 ppm. Under these low oxygen conditions, Flavobacterium sp. 98 showed reduced growth, enhanced motility, and an altered extracellular metabolite profile. Flavobacterium sp. 98 colonies spread out in response to oxygen limitation and more effectively restricted hyphal growth of the sugar beet root pathogen Rhizoctonia solani than Flavobacterium sp. 98 grown at ambient oxygen conditions. Exometabolome analysis revealed enhanced accumulation of lysophosphatidylethanolamine (lysoPE) and N-acetyl-phenylalanine under low-oxygen conditions, along with a reduced level of the antifungal compound 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole. These responses reflect physiological and metabolic plasticity of Flavobacterium sp. 98, highlighting significant changes in the expression of specific traits under hypoxic conditions. Our findings provide insights into niche-adaptive strategies of endophytic bacteria and pinpoint functional traits in microbe-plant interactions operating inside plant tissue.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.