he antibiotics of interest are 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (DAPG) (Mavrodi et al. 2001b), phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA) (Raaijmakers et al. 1997), phenazine-1-carboxamide (PCN) (Mavrodi et al. 2001a), pyrrolnitrin (PRN) (Mavrodi et al. 2001b), pyoluteorin (PLT) (Mavrodi et al. 2001b) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) (Ramette et al. 2003). PCR products were sequenced and compared with known genes in GenBank using BLAST N.