Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study.

a<p>Species attributes of native <i>Bacillus</i> strains were identified based on Biolog analysis except for strain OF3-16, which was identified based on physiological and biochemical characteristics described in the Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042124#pone.0042124-Sneath1" target="_blank">[39]</a>.</p>b<p>ATCC, American Type Culture Collection Center; BCRC, Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Taiwan; DSM, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information.