TABLE 1.

Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study

Strain or plasmid	Relevant characteristic(s)	Reference or source
Strains
E. coli JM109	Plasmid storage, cloning strain
E. coli S17-1	Conjugation strain	37
P. aeruginosa PAO1	Growth on citronellol, citronellate, and related acyclic terpenoids	ATCC 15692
Plasmids
pJoe4036.1	Broad-host-range plasmid, rhaP pT7 lacPOZ′ rrnB bla, used for expression of proteins from rhamnose-dependent promoter	J. Altenbuchner (personal communication)
pJoe4036.1::atuE	atuE-hexahistidine under the control of an l-rhamnose promoter	38