“…The selected bacterial isolates belonged to the abundant genera Bacillus, Pseudomonas, and Paenibacillus that have already been identified in the culture-independent exploration (Drage et al, 2014). These form a major group of endophytic bacteria that have been isolated as endophytes from various plant species, encompassing diverse plants such as trees and aquatic plants, but can occur also as saprophytes and pathogens (O'Neill et al, 1992;Shishido et al, 1995;Cankar et al, 2005;Ferreira et al, 2008;Izumi et al, 2008;Ulrich et al, 2008a,b;Khan and Doty, 2009;Pardatscher and Schweigkofler, 2009;Filteau et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2012). Bacillus simplex is not only a human pathogen but can also occur in soils and forms associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Lecomte et al, 2011).…”