TABLE 1.

Summary of group I to XII Bacillus granite isolates

Group	Strain	Blue fluorescence	Sporulation in SSM	GenBank accession no.	Nearest neighbor by 16S rRNA gene sequencinga	% Identity by 16S rRNA gene sequencingb
I	WN603	+	+	DQ275182	B. megaterium	99.2
II	WN611	+	+	DQ275184	B. megaterium	99.6
III	WN585	+	+	DQ275179	B. megaterium	99.4
IV	WN613	−	−	DQ275185	B. barbaricus	87.1
V	WN586	+	+	DQ275180	B. megaterium	100.0
VI	WN606	+	+	DQ275183	B. megaterium	100.0
VII	WN591	+	+	DQ275181	B. megaterium	100.0
VIII	WN570	+	−	DQ275175	B. simplex	99.6
IX	WN579	++	+	DQ275178	B. simplex	100.0
X	WN577	−	−	DQ275177	B. niacini	95.1
XI	WN559	−	+	DQ275174	B. drentensis	96.2
XII	WN575	−	−	DQ275176	B. drentensis	98.6

^aFull-length 16S rRNA gene (∼1.5 kb) PCR fragments were sequenced.

^bIsolates with a percent identity of >97.5% were considered the same species (59).