Table 1

Primer	Target DNA	Sequence (5’- 3’)	Reference
MMV6	Methylobacterium mesophilicum 16SrDNA	ACGTGGAGAGATTCACGG	Rossetto et al., 2000
CF16S	Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens 16SrDNA	ATCAGGAGCTTGCTCCTGTGA	Rossetto et al., 2000
530R	16S rDNA	CCGCGGCKGCTGGCAC	Lane, 1985
R1378	Bacterial 16S rDNA	CGGTGTGTACAAGGCCCGGGAACG	Heuer et al., 1997
U968-GC	Bacterial 16S rDNA	CGCCCGGGGCGCGCCCCGGGCGGGGCGGGGGCACGGGGGG-AACGCGAAGAACCTTAC	Heuer et al., 1997
PO27F	Bacterial 16S rDNA	GAGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG	Lane, 1985

Table 1: Primers used in this study, target organism and sequence.