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Table 2.

Potential plant growth-promoting traits of four rhizobacterial endophytes isolated from drought-tolerant sorghum cultivars and phylogenetic identity based on their partial 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis

Isolate	Sorghum cultivar	Plant growth promoting traits^†					Closest match (NCBI acc. no.); % sequence similarity	Phylogenetic group; Gram reaction	GenBank submission (NCBI acc. no.)
Isolate	Sorghum cultivar	N	P	S	I	A	Closest match (NCBI acc. no.); % sequence similarity	Phylogenetic group; Gram reaction	GenBank submission (NCBI acc. no.)
EB-14	Maldandi 35-1	+	+	+	+	−	100% with many strains of genera Enterobacter, Klebsiella and Leclercia.	γ-Proteobacteria; Gram negative	KU258056
EB-48	Maldandi 35-1	−	+	+	+	−	Many strains of the genus Enterobacter; 99.75% with Enterobacter cloacae strain KNR2.7 (MG274281)	γ-Proteobacteria; Gram negative	KU258057
EB-65	Maldandi 35-1	+	−	−	+	+	Many strains of the genus Microbacterium; 99.87% with Microbacterium sp. 8 SY-2016 (LT009507)	Actinobacteria; High-G + C Gram positive	KU258058
EB-165	Phule Maulee	+	+	+	+	+	Many strains of the genus Ochrobactrum; 99.22% with Ochrobactrum sp. strain P14P1 (KX673853)	α2-Proteobacteria; Gram negative	KU258059

N nitrogen fixation, P phosphorus solubilization, S- siderophore production, I indole acetic acid production, A 1-amino cyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase activity (data from Govindasamy et al. 2017)

^†+ Positive for the trait; − negative for the trait