Figure 1.
Isolation and PCR amplification of the V3/V4 16S rDNA region of endophytic bacterial isolates from Saccharum sp (A) Saccharum sp from Jamaica used for the isolation of endophytic bacteria. (B) Plating and isolation of bacteria on tryptic soy agar (TSA), Luria broth agar (LB), Reasoner's 2A agar (R2A), nutrient agar (N) and potato dextrose agar (PD). (C) 0.8% (w/v) agarose gel showing the resolution of the ~500bp amplicons of the V3/V4 16S rDNA region from the six endophytic bacteria. Lane 1-Marker (1Kb+), Lane 2-negative control (-DNA template), Lanes 3-8- V3/V4 amplicons from Pseudomonas sp RIT409, Pseudomonas sp RIT411, Pseudomonas sp RIT412, Pantoea sp RIT 413, Pseudocitrobacter sp RIT415, and Enterobacter sp RIT418 respectively.