Acknowledgements
The following institutes contributed to the Q-bank Bacteria database:
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The following persons/institutes contributed to the Q-bank Bacteria database by providing specimen and/or DNA:
Casiana Vera Cruz, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines
Hongmei Li, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Monica Höfte, Faculty of Bio-engineering, Gent University, Belgium
Pablo Llop, Centro de Proteccion Vegetal y Biotecnologia, Valencia, España
Jaime Cubero, INIA, Madrid, España
Valérie Verdier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France
Claude Bragard, Earth and Life Institute, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Nursen Ustun, Plant Protection Research Institute, Izmir, Turkey
Hatice Özaktan, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ege, Izmir, Turkey
Joanna Pulawska, Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice, Poland
Aleksa Obradovic, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Rodrigo Almeida, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Nicola Sante Iacobellis, Universita degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
Julio Rodrigues-Neto, Instituto Biologico, Campinas, Brasil
Harrie Koenraadt, Naktuinbouw, Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands
Ana Rodriguez Perez, Dpto. Proteccion Vegetal, Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias, La Laguna, Spain
Bert Woudt, Syngenta Seeds B.V., Enkhuizen, The Netherlands