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Table 2.2

(continued)

Genus

Strain

Isolated from

Inoculated into

Bene

fi

ts provided to the nonnative host

Enterobacter

E. asburiae

JM22

Cotton (McInroy andKloepper

1995

)

Cucumber and bean(Quadt-Hallmann andKloepper

1996

)

• 
  

E.

sp. strain 35

Sugarcane (Tanaka et al. 2006

)

Cultivated rice and wildrice (Zakria et al.

2008

)

Nitrogen

fixation

E. cloacae

344

Cacao tree (Leite et al. 2013

)

Cucumber, corn,common beans (Moreiraet al.

2015

)

• 
  

Gluconacetobacter

G. diazotrophicus

spp.

Sugarcane (Youssefet al.

2004

)

Wheat (Youssef et al. 2004

)

Nitrogen

fixation

G. diazotrophicus

PAL5

Sugarcane (Bertalanet al.

2009

)

Rice (Alqu

éres et al.

2013

)

• 
  

Rice (Rouws et al.

2010

)

• 
  

Arabidopsis thaliana(Rangel de Souza et al. 2016

)

Increases photosynthetic rate andwater-use ef

fi

ciency

Acetobacter diazotrophicus(now known as

G.

diazotrophicus

) PA15

Sugarcane (Gillis et al. 1989

)

Rice (Sevilla andKennedy

2000

)

Increases plant height in N-limitedconditions

Herbaspirillum

H. seropedicae

strains

ZAE94 and ZAE67

Sorghum (Baldani et al. 1986

)

Rice (Baldani et al. 2000

)

Fixes nitrogen and increases biomass

H. seropedicae

strain LR15

Corn (Baldani et al. 1986

)

Corn, sorghum, rice(Roncato-Maccari et al. 2003

)

Nitrogen

fixation

H. frisingense

strain GSF30

T

Miscanthussacchari

florus

(Kirchhof

et al.

2001

)

Barley (Rothballer et al. 2008

)

IAA production and ACC utilization

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