Table 1.
Percentage of bacteria producing compounds related to biocontrol and/or promoting growth according to number of produced compounds and total isolated by grouping as the origin of the bacterial isolates (Ficus carica, Gramineae, Leguminoseae, Liliaceae, Prunus persica, soil, Tagetes and others – total = 1219 isolates).
| Source groups/(no. isolates) | Number of the compounds produced |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| Ficus carica | 10.9* | 18.2 | 23.6 | 14.5 | 9.1 | 10.9 | 9.1 | 3.6 | 0.0 |
| Gramineae | 8.3 | 11.1 | 16.7 | 15.3 | 11.1 | 6.9 | 20.8 | 8.3 | 1.4 |
| Leguminoseae | 7.9 | 13.9 | 17.9 | 7.9 | 12.6 | 15.9 | 17.9 | 6.0 | 0.0 |
| Liliaceae | 2.3 | 6.4 | 8.2 | 16.9 | 13.7 | 19.2 | 17.8 | 15.5 | 0.0 |
| Prunus persica | 10.8 | 16.8 | 18.2 | 20.5 | 12.5 | 12.1 | 6.1 | 2.7 | 0.3 |
| Soil | 11.0 | 12.0 | 11.0 | 17.5 | 12.9 | 14.6 | 13.9 | 5.5 | 1.6 |
| Tagetes | 0.0 | 2.0 | 23.5 | 21.6 | 19.6 | 15.7 | 13.7 | 3.9 | 0.0 |
| Others** | 6.2 | 10.8 | 18.5 | 20.0 | 12.3 | 10.8 | 13.8 | 7.7 | 0.0 |
*
Percentage values for 1219 bacterial isolates tested.
**
Others = Solanum lycopersicum, Brassicae, and culture medium contaminants.