For the isolation of IRRB, the dose of 10 kGy was chosen and 1 g of irradiated roots of
P. turgidum was crushed as indicated in the previous step. After shaking in an orbital shaker, at 150 rpm for 30 min at room temperature, each mixture was serially diluted (10
−1–10
−5). A volume of 100 μL of each dilution was plated on TSA. After 7 days of incubation at 30 °C, different morphotypes were selected, purified, maintained in tryptic soy broth (TSB) and stored in 25% glycerol (vol/vol) at − 80 °C (Guesmi et al., 2019 ).
Morphological features of most IRRB were examined using a Scanning Electron Microscope (
JSM 5400, JEOL, Japan) as described by Kaewkla and Franco (2019) (
link). After growth on TSA plates at 30 °C for 48 h, bacterial cells were fixed with 2% w/vol glutaraldehyde in 0.9% NaCl solution and then fixed cells were dried with graded (50, 70, 90 and 100%) ethanol solutions. All manipulations were done in triplicates (3).
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