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. 2002 Mar;68(3):1325–1335. doi: 10.1128/AEM.68.3.1325-1335.2002

TABLE 3.

Percentages of species and diversity of cultured rhizobacteria from plant lines DC1, DES, DL4, and DL5 in five samplings

Identification and classification by fatty acid profiles Percentage
First year
Second year
Young plants (Q)
Flowering plants (Q)
Senescent plants (Q)
Senescent plants (Q)
Senescent plants (L)
DC1 DES DL4 DL5 DC1 DES DL4 DL5 DC1 DES DL4 DL5 DC1 DES DL4 DL5 DC1 DES DL4 DL5
Chryseobacterium spp. 6 2 3 3 1 3 1 1 5 3 2 21 24 14 15
Flavobacterium spp. 6 9 2 22 5 3 4 3 6 7 15 3 15 13 7 4 7 5 15 10
Sphingobacterium spp. 2 2 2 7 2 1 4 3 3
Other CFB group bacteria 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 7 2 1
Agrobacterium spp. 2 3 2 3 1 3 5 2 5 1 1 1 2 3 6 5
Bradyrhizobium japonicum 1 2
Brevundimonas vesicularis 2 1 2 1
Methylobacterium spp. 1 3 1
Other α-proteobacteria 2 3 1 1 1 6 2 2 2 1 1
Acidovorax spp. 2 2 1 1 1 2
Comamonas acidovorans 2 2 4 9 3 10 9 5 3 7 10 7 11 4 2 2 6 5 3
V. paradoxus 8 7 2 4 16 15 14 15 15 6 3 7 3 2 2 2 3 3 3
Burkholderia spp. 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 1
Ralstonia pickettii 5 4 5 9 6
Other β-proteobacteria 2 1 2 4 4 2 6 3 2 6
Enterobacter spp. 2 6 1 3 8 3 4 1 1 8 5
Pectobacterium spp. 1 2 1 1 2 1
Pantoea spp. 2 1 1 4 3 2 3 3 3 3
Other Enterobacteriaceae 4 2 2 2 2 3 5 2 2 5 3 1 8 1 3
P. chlororaphis 4 7 9 4 3 8 2 5 3 9 2 3 3 6 4 15 9 6 10
P. fluorescens 14 5 15 1 5 3 11 8 7 4 9 6 13 9 6 3 2 6
P. putida 2 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 10 6 12 9 12 2 7 8
P. syringae 2 8 14 2 3 2 1 3 6 12 5 3 2 4 3 2 1
Other Pseudomonaceae 8 2 6 10 7 14 14 14 13 24 1 2 1 6 4 2 1
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia 8 3 2 8 8 5 3 2 5 6 2 1 3 4 13 9 5 7 7
Xanthomonas campestris 3 2 1 2 3 3 1 3 1
Acinetobacter; Moraxella 3 2 3 2 1 1 3 1 2 2 2 3 2
Clavibacter michiganensis 1 1 2 1 1 2
Microbacterium spp. 6 2 3 3 3 1 3 1 1 2 2 3 2 2 4 1 1
Rathayibacter tritici 4 2 2 2 3 1 3 1 1 1
Arthrobacter spp. 7 2 6 4 3 3 7 2 1 3 1 2 1 1 2
Kocuria spp. 2 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 3 6 2 1 1
Other Micrococcineae 2 5 2 1 3 1 1 2 2 4 1 1
Corynebacterineae 1 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 1 6 1
Bacillus and related 20 41 30 18 9 6 12 7 4 2 2 1 5 2 2 1 1
Other gram-positive bacteria 6 5 6 8 12 17 6 16 6 3 7 1 2 6 2 1
Uncertain affiliation 8 2 4 3 2 2 1 2 2 2 4 7 5 3 3 1 1
No. of isolates analyzed 51 58 66 49 116 115 104 116 116 118 122 121 129 129 123 123 82 97 88 87
Diversity index (H) 2.8 2.7 2.9 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.9 3.0 3.2 2.8 3.1 2.7 2.9 3.1 2.9