TABLE 1.
Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study.
| Strain or plasmid | Description | Source or reference |
| B. gladioli pv agaricicola strains | ||
| ICMP 11096 | ||
| ICMP 11096glad-I | gladI:Km of B. gladioli 11096 | This study |
| ICMP 11096glad-IR | ICMP 11096gladI complemented with pBBgladIR | This study |
| CV026 | C. violaceum AHLs sensor strain; double transposon mutant of ATCC31532, violacein and AHL negative | McClean et al., 1997 |
| pGEM2T easy | Cloning vector AmpR | Promega |
| pLAFR3 | Broad-host-range cloning vector, IncP1, TcR | Staskawicz et al., 1987 |
| pRK2013 | KmR Tra + Mob +, ColE1 replicon | |
| pKNOCK-Km | Conjugative suicide vector KmR | Alexeyev, 1999 |
| pBBRMCS-5 | Cloning vector GmR | Kovach et al., 1995 |
| pKmgladI | glad I internal fragment cloned in pKNOCK-Km | This study |
| pLgladIR | pLAFR3 containing B. gladioli ICMP11096 | This study |
| Genomic DNA | ||
| pBBgladIR | pBBRMCS-5 carrying a 3544 bp fragment containing B. gladioli quorum sensing genes | This study |