Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) has been used as a biofertilizer, bringing benefits to agriculture as
Phosphorus Solubilizing Bacteria (PSB), indole-acetic acid (IAA) producers, and with other activites. The goal of this
report was the identification of PGPR from soils under sugarcane crops by 16S rRNA sequencing, and the evaluation of the
ability of phosphorus solubilizing and IAA production by biological assays. The isolates of this work were obtained from
three areas of sugarcane crop from São Paulo State, Brazil. All isolates came from rhizosphere soil, and in a total of 60
isolates just 10 have showed high ability in phosphorus solubilizing. The selection of PSB may be done by phenotypic
and/or genotypic characterization. Among ten isolates Enterobacter sp. (FJ890899), Entrobacter homaechei subsp.
verschuerennii (FJ890998), Burkholderia sp. (FJ890895), and Labrys portucalensis (FJ890891) were able to IAA
production.