Plant growth promoting endophyte Burkholderia contaminans NZ antagonizes phytopathogen Macrophomina phaseolina through melanin synthesis and pyrrolnitrin inhibition

• Nazia R. Zaman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nazia R. Zaman, Umar F. Chowdhury

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Umar F. Chowdhury ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nazia R. Zaman, Umar F. Chowdhury

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Rifath N. Reza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Farhana T. Chowdhury,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mrinmoy Sarker,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Muhammad M. Hossain,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Ahedul Akbor,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of National Analytical Research and Service (INARS), Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Al Amin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6641-4404

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• Mohammad Riazul Islam ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mriazulislam@du.ac.bd (MRI); haseena@du.ac.bd (HK)

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3858-5334

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• Haseena Khan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mriazulislam@du.ac.bd (MRI); haseena@du.ac.bd (HK)

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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