The term endophyte refers to interior colonization of plants by microorganisms that do not have pathogenic effects on their hosts, and various endophytes have been found to play important roles in plant vitality. In this study, cultivation-independent terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA directly amplified from plant tissue DNA was used in combination ...

Agricultural antibiotics are widely used to inhibit the growth of phytopathogenic bacteria involved in plant diseases. However, continuous antibiotic overuse crop production may lead development resistance bacteria. This study was conducted evaluate three different agricultural (oxytetracycline+streptomycin, streptomycin, and validamycin A) 91 strains including <i>Pectobacterium carotovor...