Identifi cation of antibiotics that are effective 2 in eliminatingAgrobacterium tumefaciens
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An assay was performed to identify the antibiotics that are most effective againstAgrobacterium tumefaciens strains EHA101 and LBA4404, and to determine if these antibiotics inhibited tobacco callus and shoot formation. We tested ten antibiotics: cefotaxime, carbenecillin, erythromycin, spectinomycin, polymixin B, chloramphenicol, methicillin, Augmentin 500, Augmentin 250, and moxalactam. The effectiveness of each antibiotic against the two strains was determined by measuring the zones of inhibition of bacterial growth in a disk-diffusion assay. The five antibiotics that generated the largest zones of inhibition for each strain were assayed to determine their effects on callus formation. Cefotaxime was the most active antibiotic tested against strain LBA4404, and moxalactam was the most effective antibiotic against EHA101. Both cefotaxime and moxalactam had little or no effect on callus development.
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