“…Bacterial endophytes have been isolated from many different plant species, including tomato (Nejad and Johnson, 2000), potato (Garbeva et al, 2001;Sturz et al, 1999), wheat (Coombs and Franco, 2003;Germida et al, 1998;Siciliano et al, 1998), sweet corn (McInroy and Kloepper, 1995), cotton (McInroy and Kloepper, 1995), Vol. 54 LIAN,WANG,and ZHOU oilseed rape Nejad and Johnson, 2000), coffee (Fernando et al, 2005), sugarcane (James and Olivares, 1998) and citrus plants (Araujo et al, 2001(Araujo et al, , 2002.…”