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Bacillus cereus UW85 is a potential biocontrol agent for preand post-emergence damping-off caused by oomycete fungi. Establishment of UW85 in the rhizosphere may be required for it to be an effective biocontrol agent. Understanding the rhizosphere population dynamics of UW85 may help predict its effectiveness in biocontrol. We used spontaneous antibiotic resistance mutations in B. cereus UW85 as markers to distinguish it from the indigeneous B. cereus population. In this summary we present evidence suggesting that antibiotic resistance was rapidly lost from the B. cereus population in the field and that this loss could not be predicted from laboratory experiments.
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Halverson, L.J., Handelsman, J. (1991). Stability of antibiotic-resistance markers in Bacillus cereus UW85. In: Keister, D.L., Cregan, P.B. (eds) The Rhizosphere and Plant Growth. Beltsville Symposia in Agricultural Research, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3336-4_14
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