Screening and optimization of low-cost medium for Pseudomonas putida Rs-198 culture using RSM

RESEARCH PAPER

Screening and optimization of low-cost medium for Pseudomonas putida Rs-198 culture using RSM

Yanjie Peng; Yanhui He; Zhansheng Wu; Jianjiang Lu; Chun Li

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Chemical Materials of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shihezi University, Shihezi, P.R. China

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ABSTRACT

The plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial strain Pseudomonas putida Rs-198 was isolated from salinized soils from Xinjiang Province. We optimized the composition of the low-cost medium of P. putida Rs-198 based on its bacterial concentration, as well as its phosphate-dissolving and indole acetic acid (IAA)-producing capabilities using the response surface methodology (RSM), and a mathematical model was developed to show the effect of each medium component and its interactions on phosphate dissolution and IAA production. The model predicted a maximum phosphate concentration in medium containing 63.23 mg/L inorganic phosphate with 49.22 g/L corn flour, 14.63 g/L soybean meal, 2.03 g/L K₂HPO₄, 0.19 g/L MnSO₄ and 5.00 g/L NaCl. The maximum IAA concentration (18.73 mg/L) was predicted in medium containing 52.41 g/L corn flour, 15.82 g/L soybean meal, 2.40 g/L K₂HPO₄, 0.17 g/L MnSO₄ and 5.00 g/L NaCl. These predicted values were also verified through experiments, with a cell density of 10¹³ cfu/mL, phosphate dissolution of 64.33 mg/L, and IAA concentration of 18.08 mg/L. The excellent correlation between predicted and measured values of each model justifies the validity of both the response models. The study aims to provide a basis for industrialized fermentation using P. putida Rs-198.

Key words: Pseudomonas putida Rs-198, Low-cost medium, Phosphorus-dissolving, IAA, Response surface methodology.

Introduction

Salinization of soil is a serious problem and is increasing steadily in many parts of the world, in particular in arid and semiarid areas (Al-Karaki, 2006). Xinjiang province, located in northwest China, a semi-arid region, is one of the largest hubs of cotton planting. However, increasingly serious soil salinization in the cultivated layer results in substantial losses of cotton yields (Wu et al., 2012). The rate of ground water evaporation and plant transpiration is so high that salt in the groundwater continuously moves toward the cultivation layer (Clercq et al., 2009). Soil salinization has become a major factor limiting crop yields. In recent years, a new approach has been developed to improve the growth of plants and protect them from soil salinity stress, by treating crop seeds and seedlings with plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPR) (Egamberdieva, 2012; Yue et al., 2007). PGPR are root-colonizing bacteria in the rhizosphere of numerous plant species. They have the ability to colonize and establish a relationship with plants to increase biomass, root growth, and commercial yield (Whipps, 2001; Tang et al., 2009).

PGPR reportedly promote plant rooting, growth, and nutrient absorption, as well as enhance photosynthesis (Ahmad et al., 2005). P. putida Rs-198 was isolated from alkaline soil and identified based on its physiologic and biochemical properties, as well as sequence analysis its 16S rDNA by Yao et al. (2010). The effects of P. putida Rs-198 on cotton seedling growth under salt stress have been studied. Results indicated that P. putida Rs-198 protects plants against salt stress and promotes cotton seedling growth. Further analysis showed that P. putida Rs-198 increases the absorption of Mg²⁺, K⁺, and Ca²⁺, decreases Na⁺ uptake from the soil, and also improves the production of endogenous indole acetic acid (IAA) content of cotton seedlings under salt stress. A research team investigated the phosphate-dissolving capability of P. putida Rs-198 and found that the bacterial strain increases the soluble phosphate content of the soil, thereby improving phosphate absorption.

The high price of beef extract and peptone used in common media has increased the production costs of P. putida Rs-198. However, industrial of P. putida Rs-198 production can be made economical by utilizing low-cost media such as agricultural by-products (corn flour, soybean meal) (Ozdemir et al., 2009). Several kinds of inexpensive organic and inorganic nitrogen sources and corn steep liquor were evaluated for their potential to replace more expensive nitrogen sources derived from Bacto-peptone and yeast extract by Saha (2006). The bacterium produced mannitol using soy peptone and corn steep liquor was more than that of using Bacto-peptone and yeast extract. Pereira et al. (2010) also reported that statistical experimental designs were used to develop a medium based on corn steep liquor and other low-cost nutrient sources for high-performance very high gravity (VHG) ethanol fermentations by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This study provides valuable insights into cost-effective nutritional supplementation of industrial fuel ethanol VHG fermentations.

We optimized the medium using the response surface methodology (RSM) to obtain a high bacterial concentration, phosphate-dissolving capability, and IAA content in the low-cost medium. The RSM is increasingly used for various phases of fermentation optimization. RSM is a collection of mathematical and statistical techniques that are useful for the modeling and analysis of problems, in which a response of interest is influenced by several variables (Liu and Wang, 2007) and the objective is to optimize this response. First, we screened different concentrations of the carbon source, the nitrogen source, and inorganic salts. Second, we used the Box-Behnken Design (BBD) test in Design-Expert 7.0 (trial version) to design an experiment to measure the phosphate-dissolving capability and IAA content in low-cost medium (Qin et al., 2012).

The main objectives of this study are to determine the optimal low-cost medium components for soluble phosphate and IAA production using P. putida Rs-198, and to understand the relationships among the medium constituents (corn flour, soybean meal and inorganic salts), soluble phosphate production and IAA production. This study will provide a foundation for the industrialized fermentation of P. putida Rs-198, thereby providing a method for high-density culture.

Materials and Methods

Bacterial strain and culture medium

The strain P. putida Rs-198 sued in this study was isolated previously from salinized soil in Xinjiang province, China (Yao et al., 2010) and was grown on Nutrient Agar (NA) liquid medium (beef extract 5 g, peptone 10 g, NaCl 5 g, H₂O 1000 mL, pH 7.0-7.2). Pure cultures of the Rs-198 were preserved in NA liquid medium with shaking at 170 rpm and at 30 °C for 48 h. Final cell concentration of P. putida Rs-198 maintained at 10¹³ cfu/mL by constantly keeping it at 4 °C.

Single-factor experiment

Given the high cost of beef extract and peptone, corn flour and soybean meal were chosen as the C and N source for the study (Tang et al., 2004). The primary P. putida Rs-198 inoculums (1 mL) was inoculated into 100 mL of culture medium containing 10, 30, 50, and 70 g/L of corn flour as the sole C source in 250 mL conical flask at 30 °C and 170 rpm for 72 h. Similarly, 1 mL of the primary inoculum was inoculated into culture medium containing 5, 10, 15, and 20 g/L soybean meal as the sole N source, MgSO₄ (0.2 g/L), K₂HPO₄ (2 g/L), MnSO₄ (0.2 g/L), CaCO₃ (1 g/L), and FeCl₃ (0.2 g/L) were used as sources of inorganic salts (Wu et al., 2008). The initial cells concentration in different low-cost mediums were determined as 6.7 x 10¹⁰ cfu/mL by counting the colony-forming units present on NA agar plates after serial dilution for overnight incubation at 30 °C. After 72 h of cultivation, the cell density, phosphate-dissolving capability, and IAA production of P. putida Rs-198 were measured. As we all know, corn flour contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, carotene, riboflavin and other nutrients. Soybean meal contains protein, lysine, tryptophan, methionine, cystine and other nutrients. These nutrients are very useful in the growth of bacterial fermentation.

Measurement of inorganic phosphate-dissolving capability of P. putida Rs-198

Inorganic phosphate-solubilizing activity was measured by plate and broth assay at 30 °C. Pikovskaya's medium (PVK) was used to measure calcium phosphate [Ca₃(PO₄)₂]-solubilizing activity (Chang and Yang, 2009). P. putida Rs-198 seed liquid was cultivated in medium containing different concentrations of corn flour, soybean meal, and inorganic salts for 72 h. One percent of the primary inoculum was inoculated into 30 mL of PVK medium in 100 mL conical flask and incubated at 30 °C and 170 rpm for 2 days. After 2 days, the samples were collected and centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 10 min. The soluble phosphate concentrations in the supernatant were determined using the molybdate blue colorimetric method (Son et al., 2006).

Measuring the ability of P. putida Rs-198 to secrete IAA

After 72 h of incubation, the bacterial cells in the different culture media were collected by centrifugation (10,000 g, 10 min). The IAA concentrations in the culture supernatants were determined using the Salkowski method (Glickmann and Dessaux, 1995). This colorimetric technique was performed according to Pilet and Chollet (1970) using reagent R1, which consisted of 12 g of FeCl₃ per liter of 7.9 M H₂SO₄. One milliliter of the supernatant was added to 1 mL of Salkowski's reagent and mixed well in a 3 mL spectrophotometer cuvette. The mixture was left in the dark for 30 min at room temperature and the absorbance at 530 nm was recorded. A standard curve was prepared from serial dilutions of 5 mM IAA stock solution. The IAA concentration in each culture medium was determined by comparison with the standard curve (Yue et al., 2007).

RSM experimental design and statistical analysis

The data obtained at each step were analyzed using the commercial optimization software Design-Expert 7.0. A Box-Behnken (1960) factorial design was used to optimize phosphate solubilization and IAA production. In the preliminary experiments, we evaluated the suitability of the corn flour (carbon source), soybean meal (nitrogen source), and inorganic salt concentrations. Therefore, the four factors were corn flour (x₁ 50 g/L), soybean meal (x₂ 15 g/L), K₂HPO₄ (x₃ 2 g/L), and MnSO₄ (x₄ 0.2 g/L). The range and levels of the variables investigated in this study are given in Table 1.

A mathematical model was developed to describe the relationships between the process indices (soluble phosphate production and IAA production) and the medium component contents in the second-order equation. The soluble phosphate production and the IAA production of P. putida Rs-198 were multiply regressed with respect to the fermentation parameters using the least squares method as follows:

where y is the predicted response variable; β₀, β_i, β_ii, and β_i, are the constant regression coefficients of the model; and x_i and x_j x_j (x = 1,4; j = 1, 4, i ? j) represent the independent variables (medium components) in the form of coded values. The accuracy and predictive ability of the polynomial model was evaluated using the coefficient of determination R². Table 2 gives the Box-Behnken design matrix and the changes in soluble phosphate and IAA.

Results and Discussion

Effect of corn flour concentration on the P. putida Rs-198 culture

During recent years, PGPR have attained so much attention of agricultural researchers due to their high efficiency in growth promotion and resistance induction in plants even under the salinity stress of soil and environment (Guo et al., 2010; Nadeem et al., 2010; Yang et al., 2009). Beef extract and peptone are commonly used as microbiologic culture media. However, they are expensive and unsuitable for industrialized P. putida Rs-198 culture. In this study, the optimal low-cost culture medium for P. putida Rs-198 was obtained by determining the phosphate solubilization and IAA production.

The number of viable cells in the culture media with different corn flour concentrations (10, 30, 50, and 70 g/L) were similar (about 10¹² cfu/mL) (Figure 1). This result indicates that corn flour concentration has little effect on bacterial growth.

P. putida Rs-198 produced over 25 mm halo zone around their colonies on the PKV medium within 4 d of incubation. This observation showed that P. putida Rs-198 had phosphate solubilization ability (Wu et al., 2012). To determine the optimal corn flour concentration for insoluble phosphate solubilization, shake flask cultures were carried out with different corn flour concentrations in the medium. The P. putida Rs-198 under the different corn flour concentrations had different inorganic phosphate-dissolving capabilities. Figure 1 shows that the soluble phosphate production using medium containing 50 g/L corn flour was 55 mg/L, which is higher than under other corn flour concentrations. On the other hand, many PGPR strains have been identified as having the ability to produce the plant growth regulators indole-3-acetic acid, cytokinin and/or other plant hormones in the rhizosphere (Kailidag et al., 2007) that could improve the growth of plants and alleviate the effect of growth inhibitors by declining abscisic acid content of plants (Patten and Glick, 2002). Our study showed that the IAA concentration in the supernatant of the medium containing 50 g/L corn flour was about 18 mg/L, which is also higher than other corn flour concentrations. The soluble phosphate (55 mg/L) and IAA concentrations (18 mg/L) in the 50 g/L of corn flour medium are also higher than the other concentrations. This might be due to 50 g/L corn flour play a role as effective nutrient for P. putida Rs-198 growth and secrete IAA as reported by Yun et al. (2004). A similar result was obtained by Tang et al. (2004), who used barley flour (x₁ = 67.6 g/L) and corn flour (x₂ = 48.9 g/L) as the center points to optimize medium composition with a central composite design. Therefore, 50 g/L of corn flour was selected as the C source for the low-cost medium for subsequent tests.

Effect of soybean meal concentration on P. putida Rs-198 culture

Various amounts (5, 10, 15, 20 g/L) of soybean meal as the N source were separately added to the medium to assess their effects on insoluble phosphate solubilization. Similar to the above, previous studies revealed that Rs-198 could secrete IAA (Yao et al., 2010). Figure 2 shows that the productions of soluble phosphate (53 mg/L) and IAA (19 mg/L) by strain P. putida Rs-198 in low-cost medium including 15 g/L soybean meal are higher than others. Joo and Chang (2005) also reported that the optimal medium contained 15 g/L soybean meal according to the optimization experiments. Therefore, 15 g/L of soybean meal was selected as the N source for low-cost medium in subsequent tests.

Effect of different inorganic salts on P. putida Rs-198 culture

To determine the effect of the increase in the amounts of various salts (MgSO₄, K₂HPO₄, MnSO₄, CaCO₃, FeCl₃) on cell density, insoluble phosphate solubilization, and IAA production of P. putida Rs-198, various concentrations of each salt were added to the low-cost medium (Son et al., 2006). Figure 3 shows that the soluble phosphate and the IAA content of the medium containing K₂HPO₄ were about 60 mg/L and 13 mg/L, respectively. Meanwhile, the soluble phosphate and IAA content of the medium containing MnSO₄ were about 58 mg/L and 14 mg/L, respectively. In addition, there were very little differences between effects of inorganic salts as K₂HPO₄, MnSO₄, MgSO₄, CaCO₃ and FeCl₃ in the medium on cell density of the culture liquid. Moreover, the phosphate-dissolving and IAA production capability of P. putida Rs-198 cultured in medium containing these two salts are more than those with the other inorganic salts. Therefore, we selected the K₂HPO₄ and MnSO₄ as the inorganic salts in the medium for culture in subsequent tests.

Low-cost medium further optimized using RSM

Optimization of phosphate solubilization

The Box-Behnken design and the corresponding experimental data are shown in Table 2. Table 3 shows the analysis of variance for the experiment. In this study, the phosphate-dissolving capability of P. putida Rs-198 was determined and analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to obtain the interaction between the process variables and the responses. The coefficient of determination (R²) of phosphate solubilization was 0.7978, which indicates that 79.78% of the variability in the response can be accounted by the model.

The polynomial model for soluble phosphate Y_P was regressed by considering the significant terms and expressed as Eq. (2).

The model reveals that the quadratic terms () have a significant but negative effect (p < 0.01) on Y_P.

Figure 4 presents the 2-D contour plot (A) and the 3-D response surface (B) of the combined effects of corn flour and soybean meal on the soluble phosphate. Soluble phoaphate was sensitive to even small alteration in corn flour and soybean meal concentrations. The soluble phosphate significantly increased with increasing corn flour and soybean meal concentrations.

The predicted the maximum soluble phosphate was 63.23 mg/L when cultures with 49.22 g/L corn flour, 14.63 g/L soybean meal, 2.03 g/L K₂HPO₄, and 0.19 g/L MnSO₄.

Optimization of IAA production

Table 4 shows the analysis of variance for the experiment. The coefficient of determination (R²) was shown was 0.9625, which indicates that 96.25% of the variability in the response can be accounted by the model. The polynomial model for IAA concentration Y_IAA was regressed by considering the significant terms and expressed as Eq. (3).

The model reveals that K₂HPO₄ concentration (x₃) significantly affected Y_IAA (p < 0.01) as indicated by the highest coefficient, followed by corn flour (x₁) and soybean meal (x₂). The positive coefficients x₁, x₂ and x₃ indicate the linearity of Y_IAA increase. However, quadratic terms ( and ) and MnSO₄ concentration (x₄) had negative effects.

The 2-D contour plot (A) and the 3-D response surface (B) of the combined effects of corn flour and soybean meal on IAA production are shown in Figure 5. The analysis reveals a maximum IAA production was 18.73 mg/L when the medium contained 52.46 g/L corn flour, 15.82 g/L soybean meal, 2.40 g/L K₂HPO₄ and 0.17 g/L MnSO₄.

Verification of the models

The calculated optimum concentrations of soluble phosphate were verified, with the maximum soluble phosphate concentration at 66.33 mg/L within 48 h, which is consistent with the predicted value (63.23 mg/L) (Figure 6). This result suggests that the proposed model (Equation 2) is also efficient for soluble phosphate production. Under the calculated optimal culture composition, the IAA production reached 19.32 mg/L at 72 h, which is consistent with the predicted value (18.73 mg/L). This result suggests that the proposed model (Eq. (3)) is also efficient for IAA production. The excellent correlation between predicted and measured values of these experiments justifies the validity of the response model and the existence of an optimum point (Liu and Wang, 2007).

The cells growing in medium B (52.41 g/L corn flour; 15.82 g/L soybean meal; 2.4 g/L K₂HPO₄; 0.17 g/L MnSO₄) reached the stationary phase after 48 h. The biomass of culture medium remained relatively stable during P. putida Rs-198 growth. The maximum dissolved phosphate produced during P. putida Rs-198 culture was 118 mg/L, which was observed after 84 h of incubation. The amount of dissolved phosphate decreased to 65 mg/L after 132 h, indicating that the sole P source in medium is used during cell growth, and the soluble phosphate precipitated into its insoluble state. Similar phenomena were also observed by Chang and Yang (2009) that eight strains with phosphorus-dissolving capability had a wide range concentration of phosphorus from 4.1 to 370.2 mg/L in PVK broth during 10 d at 25 °C.

The bacteria which able to synthesize IAA are widely distributed in plant rhizosphere (Ahmad et al., 2005; Barazani and Friendman, 1999). Figure 6 shows that the IAA content of the low-cost medium supernatant continued to increase to 20 mg/L but then decreased to 17 mg/L, which may be due attributed to the depletion of IAA during the growth of P. putida Rs-198. Some bacteria reportedly produce and degrade IAA during growth, such as Pseudomonas putida 1290 (Johan et al., 2005).

Conclusions

The effects of the low-cost medium components on the phosphate solubilization and the IAA production of P. putida Rs-198 were studied. The polynomial model for soluble phosphate Y_P was regressed by considering the significant terms and expressed as:

The polynomial model for IAA concentration Y_IAA was regressed by considering the significant terms and expressed as:

In addition, these predicted values were also verified through experiments, with a cell density of 10¹³ cfu/mL, phosphate dissolution of 64.33 mg/L, and IAA concentration of 18.08 mg/L. The excellent correlation between predicted and measured values of each model justifies the validity of both the response models. In conclusion, RSM is an effective method for maximizing phosphate solubilization and IAA production and it provides useful information for large-scale high-density culture of P. putida Rs-198 for phosphate solubilization and IAA production.

Acknowledgments

This study was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (31260022) and Science and Technology Fund Projects of Shihezi University (RCZX201122 and 2013ZRKXJQ01).

Submitted: May 15, 2013

Approved: April 17, 2014

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• Accepted
  17 Apr 2014
• Received
  15 May 2013