The partial 1400 bp 16S rRNA gene sequence of the AGB-1
isolate exhibited 99% homology with Pseudomonas koreensis
strain JH18 (Gen-Bank number KF424274). Thus the strain was
identified asP. koreensisAGB-1 and the sequence data deposited in
the GenBank (accession no. KF551988). Species of Pseudomonas
have been isolated as endophytic bacteria from roots of plants
grown in contaminated soils (Long et al., 2011; Sheng et al., 2008).
However, to our knowledge this is thefirst reported characterization of P. koreensisfrom roots of M. sinensisgrowing in an HMcontaminated mine tailing site