TABLE 1.

Conjugation results of 40 soil and vegetable isolates from three gardens.

Garden	Source	Donor (Number of isolates)	Conjugation rate (range)
E	Soil	Chryseobacterium sp. (6)	9.15 × 10–4 – 2.43 × 10–3
		Curtobacterium sp. (1)	2.64 × 10–4
		Dyadobacter sp. (1)	1.53 × 10–3
		Lysobacter sp. (1)	8.85 × 10–4
		Microbacterium sp. (1)	1.75 × 10–4
		Sphingobacterium sp. (3)	7.20 × 10–4 – 1.69 × 10–3
		Stenotrophomonas sp. (14)	2.28 × 10–4 – 3.66 × 10–3
		Variovorax sp. (1)	1.44 × 10–3
	Vegetable	Chryseobacterium sp. (1)	1.14 × 10–3
		Stenotrophomonas sp. (1)	1.33 × 10–3
G	Soil	Chryseobacterium sp. (1)	8.40 × 10–4
	Vegetable	Chryseobacterium sp. (1)	1.87 × 10–3
		Sphingobacterium sp. (1)	1.81 × 10–3
		Stenotrophomonas sp. (1)	1.53 × 10–3
O	Soil	Pseudomonas sp. (1)	1.44 × 10–3
		Stenotrophomonas sp. (1)	2.43 × 10–3
	Vegetable	Chryseobacterium sp. (1)	1.60 × 10–3
		Stenotrophomonas sp. (3)	8.80 × 10–4 – 1.75 × 10–3