Plant-fed versus chemicals-fed rhizobacteria of Lucerne: Plant-only teabags culture media not only increase culturability of rhizobacteria but also recover a previously uncultured Lysobacter sp., Novosphingobium sp. and Pedobacter sp.

• Nabil A. Hegazi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hegazinabil8@gmail.com

  Affiliation Environmental Studies and Research Unit (ESRU), Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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• Mohamed S. Sarhan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Environmental Studies and Research Unit (ESRU), Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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• Mohamed Fayez,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Studies and Research Unit (ESRU), Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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• Sascha Patz,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Großbeeren/ Erfurt e.V. (IGZ), Großbeeren, Germany

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• Brian R. Murphy,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• Silke Ruppel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Großbeeren/ Erfurt e.V. (IGZ), Großbeeren, Germany

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