Cold Stress Tolerance in Psychrotolerant Soil Bacteria and Their Conferred Chilling Resistance in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Mill.) under Low Temperatures

• Parthiban Subramanian,

  Current address: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology (Metabolic Engineering Division), National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361–763, Republic of Korea

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• Kiyoon Kim,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361–763, Republic of Korea

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• Ramasamy Krishnamoorthy,

  Current address: Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai, India

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361–763, Republic of Korea

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• Anbazhagan Mageswari,

  Current address: Department of Agricultural Biology, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

  Affiliation School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Gopal Selvakumar,

  Current address: Horticultural and herbal crop environment division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Wanju, Republic of Korea

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361–763, Republic of Korea

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• Tongmin Sa

  * E-mail: tomsa@chungbuk.ac.kr

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Biological Chemistry, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 361–763, Republic of Korea

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