You will certainly be able to publish your work. However, regulatory authorities will not let you use this strain in the environment because it is a pathogen.

Parenthetically, I should add that many years ago we found a soil bacteria with a very high level of ACC deaminase activity. However, once we discovered that the organism was Bacillus anthracis, we stopped working on this as we knew that this would cause all sorts of problems.

Dear Fatima,

why not ? actually it is very genuine to show the PGPR traits of such bacterium.

Alcaligenes faecalis is generally considered nonpathogenic and it can be found in soil. it means that it can stay viable after applying it on the field. I think you should go ahead and valorize this bacterium as soon as possible.

wish you good luck.

Thank you for the reply Badreddine Sijilmassi . I would surely now proceed with my work.

It is common to find this bacteria in soil and rhizosphere. Researchers have also reported them with various PGP characters and from rhizosphere.

Thank you Naveen Arora Sir. i was just confused because of its pathogenicity.

You will certainly be able to publish your work. However, regulatory authorities will not let you use this strain in the environment because it is a pathogen.

Parenthetically, I should add that many years ago we found a soil bacteria with a very high level of ACC deaminase activity. However, once we discovered that the organism was Bacillus anthracis, we stopped working on this as we knew that this would cause all sorts of problems.

Thank you so much sir Bernard R. Glick for the reply. I am willing to use its metabolite for field applications. Will it be problematic too??

In my experience, it is much better to completely avoid any bacteria that might be pathogenic because such organisms will be more trouble than they are worth. Even using purified components, you will have to prove that there is no hazard involved. This is okay for the lab but absolutely not for the field where the regulatory authorities in most countries are very strict. The world has plenty of harmless bacteria; use them.

Thank you so much sir Bernard R. Glick for your valuable answer. Its my privilege to seek advice from you. I would now limit my work on Alcaligenes to publications only.

I noticed on your Research Gate page that you are interested in growing plants in conditions of high salt. We have done quite a lot of work in this area and much of it can be found on my Research gate page where you can download whatever you like.

Yes sir!!! In our lab we are working on salt tolerant PGPR and we are trying to remediate the surrounding saline areas using PGPR. In our country India and specifically in our state salinity is a major issue. we follow your research and would surely do in future also. Once again thank you so much sir!!! Hoping your guidance in future also.

Thank you sir Rajesh Kumar

I have learnt something interesting from @Bernard R. Glick. Thanks professor!

As pointed out by @ Professor Bernard Glick , it is better to avoid such potentail pathogens. Please download a review of Biosafety of Bioinoculants from my home page in Research Gate.

Thank you sir Govindan Selvakumar .

It's better to avoid all sort of pathogens....!!

we know that Alcaligenes faecalis is related to pathogenic bacteria and so you can not recommend for field scale.

I recommended this paper for you

Article Efficiency of Heavy Metals-Tolerant Plant Growth Promoting B...

thank you so much!!! An interesting study!!!i hope that there was no query regarding checking for pathogenicity test!

Avoid the strain for further work.

You can able to publish your work, but do not think to exploit the strain for betterment of humankind.