Table 1.

Strains and plasmids used in this study.

Bacteria and plasmids	Description	Reference
Acinetobacter baylyi strains
ADP1(BD413)	Wild type	Juni and Janik (1969)
ADPWH_lux	Bioreporter of salicylate. Promoterless luxCDABE from pSB417 were inserted between salA and salR genes in the chromosome	Huang et al. (2005)
ADPWH_alk	Bioreporter of alkanes. Promoterless luxCDABE were inserted in alkM gene in the chromosome	D. Zhang, Y. He, J. Zhao, L. Wu, J. Wang, H. Wang and W.E. Huang, in preparation
ADPWH‐Pu‐lux‐xylR	Bioreporter toluene/xylenes, Pu fused with promoterless luxCDABE were inserted between salA and salR genes. xylR with its own promoter was inserted into salA. All genes were in the chromosome	Huang et al. (2008)