Cotton and snap bean were selected for a multi-year, multi-state regional (south-eastern USA) research project to evaluate the efficacy of both commercial and experimental bacterial and fungal biological control agents for the management of damping-off diseases. The goal for this portion of the project was to determine the viability and stability of biological agents after application to seed. ...

BACKGROUND Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Acari: Astigmata) and Fusarium sp. co-occur in poorly managed grain. In a laboratory experiment, mite grazing resulted in significant reduction of fungal mycelium on cultivation plates. The destruction of mycelium appeared to be a result of an interaction between the mites, fungi and associated bacteria. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A laboratory expe...

The thermophilic islolates of Mangho-pir spring water were of bacillary forms. All were gram positive, sporing rods, varying in sugar reactions; one being non saccharolytic, two monosaccharolytic, one disaccharolytic and nine fermented four or more sugars. All belonged to genus Bacillus of family Bacillaceae. All were found to be thermophilic varieties of ter-ristrial mesophilic species of genu...

Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus belongs to the family Bacillaceae and was first described in 2010 with the type strain L. xylanilyticus XDB9. It is able to both degrade xylan and use it as the sole carbon source. Here, we describe the 4.8-Mb genome of the strain L. xylanilyticus SR-86, which was isolated from organic waste.

We report here the 4.19-Mb draft genome sequence of Bacillus licheniformis VSD4, a Gram-positive bacterium of the Bacillaceae family, isolated from leaves of Hedera helix growing at a high-traffic city center in Belgium. Knowledge about its genome will help to evaluate its potential as an inoculant in phylloremediation applications.

We report the 4.39 Mb draft genome of Bacillus licheniformis GB2, a hydrocarbonoclastic Gram-positive bacterium of the family Bacillaceae, isolated from diesel-contaminated soil at the Ford Motor Company site in Genk, Belgium. Strain GB2 is an effective plant-growth promoter useful for diesel fuel remediation applications based on plant-bacterium associations.