Fig. 1.

Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on the srfA (a), bmyC (b), and ituD (c) gene sequences of shortlisted antagonistic bacterial endophytes from pearl millet host and those of closely related strain sequences. The significance of each branch is indicated by a bootstrap value (%) estimated for 1000 subsets; only values above 50% are shown. Scale (bar) indicated substitutions per site. The accession numbers of the strains are presented in parentheses. Bold accessions indicate the strains identified in the present study