Diazotrophic bacilli isolated from the sunflower rhizosphere and the potentia…

The nitrogen fixation by strains belonging to the Bacillus genus remains poorly explored. In this work, the diversity of endospore-forming bacilli isolated from the rhizosphere of sunflower was evaluated. A total of 101 strains were identified based on the V1-V2 variable regions of the 16S rRNA gene. Strains belonging to the genera Bacillus and Paenibacillus represented 41.6% and 58.4%, re…