Metabolic engineering of Bacillus subtilis with an endopolygalacturonase gene isolated from Pectobacterium. carotovorum; a plant pathogenic bacterial strain

• Nagina Rafique,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Poonch, Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, Bioproducts Research Unit, Western Regional Research Centre, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

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• Saiqa Bashir,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Poonch, Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Zubair Khan ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zubairgenes@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Poonch Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4496-6099

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• Imran Hayat,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Poonch, Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

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• Willium Orts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Bioproducts Research Unit, Western Regional Research Centre, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

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• Dominic W. S. Wong

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Bioproducts Research Unit, Western Regional Research Centre, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

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