Table 5.

Detection of the presence of genes responsible for plantaricin production

Isolates	plnA	plnB	plnC	plnD	plnEF	plnI	plnJ	plnK	plnG	plnN	plnNC8	plnS	plnW
S50	–	+	+	+	–	+	+	+	–	+	–	–	–
S51	–	+	+	+	–	+	+	+	–	+	–	–	–
S72	–	+	+	+	–	+	+	+	–	+	–	–	–
S74	–	+	+	+	–	+	+	+	–	+	–	–	–
S85	–	+	+	+	–	+	+	+	–	+	–	–	–

Results reveal the PCR detection of the related gene; + and − represent the presence and absence of the corresponding gene