ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </TITLE><link rel=STYLESHEET type=text/css href=css.css></HEAD><BODY aLink=#ff0000 bgColor=#FFFFFF leftMargin=0 link=#000000 text=#000000 topMargin=0 vLink=#000000 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table align=center width=700 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td align=left bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=550><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=3><font size=1>25º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia </font></font></strong><font face=Verdana size=1><b><br></b></font><font face=Verdana, Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><strong> </strong></font></font></td><td align=right bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=150><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><font size=1>ResumoID:1644-1</font></em></font></strong></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><br><br><table align=center width=700><tr><td>Área: <b>Ecologia Microbiana ( Divisão I )</b><p align=justify><strong>USE OF DGGE AND PCA ANALYSIS TO ASSESS EFFECTS &NBSP;OF <EM>CERATOCYSTIS FIMBRIATA</EM> ON BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED TO <EM>EUCALYPTUS</EM></strong></p><p align=justify><b><u>Anderson Ferreira </u></b> (<i>ESALQ-USP</i>); <b>Esteban Roberto Gonzáles </b> (<i>Suzano</i>); <b>Fernando Dini Andreote </b> (<i>Embrapa</i>); <b>João Lúcio Azevedo </b> (<i>ESALQ-USP</i>); <b>Welington Luiz Araújo </b> (<i>UMC</i>)<br><br></p><b><font size=2>Resumo</font></b><p align=justify class=tres><font size=2><P class=MsoTitle style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Brazil</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> is one of the largest producers of Eucalyptus in the world, and the demand to increase the yield resulted to the expansion of the cultivation area. That resulted in changes of factors influencing eucalyptus cultivation and incidence of new phytopathogens. The disease caused by <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ceratocystis fimbriata</I> is emerging in reforestation areas and present as symptoms the cankers, generalized wilt, obstruction of roots and vases and plant desiccation. Nowadays, information about the possible effects of phytopathogens, like <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">C. fimbriata</I>, on host ecology and changes in the bacterial communities associated is limited. In that way, we used helthy and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">C. fimbriata</I> infested <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Eucalyptus</I> to assess the effects caused in the rhizoplane and endophytic bacterial communities. Total DNA was extracted from the rhyzoplane and endospher samples and the total bacterial diversity was assessed by culture-independent approach DGGE. Gel image analyses were carried out using the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Gel compar II</I> and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Canoco</I> softwares. Principal Component Analyses (PCA) based in the PCR-DGGE profiles showed that <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">C. fimbriata</I> present in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Eucalyptus</I> roots interfere on bacterial diversity communities. There are differences among treatments of rhyzoplane samples infested by <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">C. fimbriata</I> and healthy roots<SPAN style="COLOR: #339966">. </SPAN>When we assessed effects on endophytic communities diversity was observed differences between highly infested plants, intermediate infestation levels and healthy plants. PCA analysis didn't show differences between endophytic diversity in healthy plants and plants with intermediate infestation <SPAN style="COLOR: black">levels by <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">C. fimbriata</I>. Plant defense system activation, during the pathogen infestation process, can modulate these rhyzoplane and endophytic bacterial communities. The results obtained in this work showed can there are interactions between plant-associated microorganisms and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">C. fimbriata</I> infestation. More studies should be focused in the application of endophytic and rhizoplane communities for biological control of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">C. fimbriata</I> and identification of interaction genes.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoTitle style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Financial Support: CNPq and Suzano Papel e Celulose.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></font></p><br><b>Palavras-chave: </b>&nbsp;MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, RHYZOPLANE, ENDOPHYTIC, 16 S rRNA</td></tr></table></tr></td></table></body></html>