Table 3.

Endophytic bacteria isolated from tea plants.

Phylum	Class	Order	Family	Genus	Species	Reference
Actinobacteria	Actinobacteria	Micrococcales	Cellulomonadaceae	Cellulomonas	Cellulomonas flavigena	[38]
			Microbacteriaceae	Microbacterium	Microbacterium arborescens	[38]
					Microbacterium imperiale	[38]
					Microbacterium testaceum	[38]
		Streptomycetales	Streptomycetaceae	Streptomyces	Streptomyces sp.	[77]
Bacteroidetes	Bacteroidia	Bacteroidales	Prevotellaceae	Prevotella	Prevotella loescheii	[38]
	Flavobacteriia	Flavobacteriales	Flavobacteriaceae	Myroides	Myroides spp.	[35]
Firmicutes	Bacilli	Bacillales	Bacillaceae	Bacillus	Bacillus amyloliquefaciens	[52]
					Bacillus safensis	[40]
					Bacillus subtilis	[37]
					Bacillus sp.	[35]
					Bacillus spp.	[36]
				Fictibacillus	Fictibacillus spp.	[35]
				Lysinibacillus	Lysinibacillus spp.	[35]
				Oceanobacillus	Oceanobacillus spp.	[35]
			Paenibacillaceae	Paenibacillus	Paenibacillus spp.	[35]
			Planococcaceae	Bhargavaea	Bhargavaea spp.	[35]
			Staphylococcaceae	Staphylococcus	Staphylococcus spp.	[35]
Proteobacteria	Alphaproteobacteria	Caulobacterales	Caulobacteraceae	Brevundimonas	Brevundimonas sp.	[35]
		Rhizobiales	Bradyrhizobiaceae	Bosea	Bosea spp.	[35]
				Bradyrhizobium	Bradyrhizobium spp.	[35]
			Methylobacteriaceae	Methylobacterium	Methylobacterium spp.	[35]
			Rhizobiaceae	Ensifer	Ensifer spp.	[35]
		Rhodobacterales	Rhodobacteraceae	Rhodobacter	Rhodobacter sphaeroides	[35]
		Sphingomonadales	Sphingomonadaceae	Sphingobium	Sphingobium spp.	[35]
				Sphingomonas	Sphingomonas spp.	[35]
	Betaproteobacteria	Burkholderiales	Burkholderiaceae	Burkholderia	Burkholderia cepacia	[39]
					Burkholderia spp.	[35]
				Ralstonia	Ralstonia spp.	[35]
			Comamonadaceae	Variovorax	Variovorax spp.	[35]
			Oxalobacteraceae	Herbaspirillum	Herbaspirillum spp.	[35]
				Massilia	Massilia spp.	[35]
			/	Aquincola	Aquincola spp.	[35]
	Gammaproteobacteria	Enterobacterales	Erwiniaceae	Pantoea	Pantoea spp.	[35]
			Yersiniaceae	Serratia	Serratia spp.	[35]
		Pseudomonadales	Moraxellaceae	Acinetobacter	Acinetobacter spp.	[35]
			Pseudomonadaceae	Pseudomonas	Pseudomonas fluorescens	[38]
					Pseudomonas spp.	[35]
		Xanthomonadales	Rhodanobacteraceae	Luteibacter	Luteibacter spp.	[35,40]
			Xanthomonadaceae	Stenotrophomonas	Stenotrophomonas spp.	[77]
4	7	13	24	32	Total number

‘/’ in the table means unclassified