The colony of strain J12 was yellow pigmented, circular and smooth. The analysis of 16S rDNA sequences indicated that J12 (accession number: JN605747) shared a maximum 99% identity with Pseudomonas brassicacearum NFM421 (CP002585). Moreover, strain J12 clustered with a P. brassicacearum type strain (AF100321) in the phylogenetic tree ( Fig. 1): clearly demonstrating that the strain was a member of P. brassicacearum of at the level of 16S rRNA gene sequence homology.