An international research team reports the draft sequence of the plant-growth promoting endophytic bacterium Enterobacter sp. 638 genome. Their annotations revealed a set of genes related to the plant niche adaptation of the bacterium, including those that code for survival in the rhizosphere, root adhesion, and establishment inside the plant, among others. Their findings also point to an explanation for the bacterium’s interactions with its host, the poplar tree.
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