Analysis of bacterial communities associated with potting media

Al-Sadi, A. M.; Al-Zakwani, H. A.; Nasehi, A.; Al-Mazroui, S. S.; Al-Mahmooli, I. H.

doi:10.1186/s40064-016-1729-0

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Table 1 Detection of bacteria isolates in 13 commercial potting media products originating from seven countries

From: Analysis of bacterial communities associated with potting media

Product no.^a	Origin	Composition	Isolate code^b	Bacterial species	GenBank acc. no.^c
1	Germany	White peat (particle size: 0–7 mm), with 95–99 % organic matter	SQU P001	B. pumilus	KU220846
1	Germany		SQU P002	L. lichenia	KU220847
2	Germany	30 % white peat (particle size: 0–7 mm) and 70 % frozen black peat; fine structure	SQU P003	B. phenazinium	KU220848
			SQU P004, 5	Burkholderia sp.	KU220849
			SQU P006	K. flava	KU220851
			SQU P007	B. vallismortis	KU220852
3	Germany	High bog peat in fine structure (particle size: 0–7 mm)	SQU P008	A. livingstonensis	KU220853
4	Germany	20 % green compost, 40 % white peat (particle size: 0–25 mm) and 40 % frozen black peat; medium structure	SQU P009	P. thivervalensis	KU220854
5	Denmark	White and dark sphagnum peat, fine structure	SQU P010, 11	B. vallismortis	KU220855
6	Estonia	Black peat and white peat (particle size: 0–6 mm); at least 92 % organic matter	SQU P012	Burkholderia sp.	KU220857
7	Estonia	Black and white milled peat (particle size 6–20 mm); at least 95 % organic matter	SQU P013	Burkholderia sp.	KU220858
7	Estonia		SQU P014	R. pickettii	KU220859
8	Estonia	Peat moss (particle size: 1–10 mm); at least 95 % organic matter	SQU P015	R. pickettii	KU220860
9	Latvia	Sphagnumfuscum peat (particle size: 0–10 mm)	SQU P016	C. gallinarum	KU220861
			SQU P017	Burkholderia sp.	KU220862
10	Ireland	Sphagnum moss peat (particle size: 0–14 mm)	SQU P018	Rhodanobacter sp.	KU220863
11	Ireland	Sphagnum moss peat (particle size: 0–14 mm)	SQU P019	S. warneri	KU220864
12	Finland	White and dark sphagnum peat, fine structure	SQU P020	R. spathiphylli	KU220865
13	Norway	Container mix, 10 % vermiculate and 15 % perlite coarse	–	–

^aManufacturers of the products are kept anonymous
^bThe sign (–) indicates that no bacteria were isolated from the product
^cThe 16S rRNA gene sequences were deposited in GenBank for the isolated bacteria

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