Supplementary Material Endophytes-assisted biocontrol: novel insights in ecology and the mode of action of Paenibacillus Daria Rybakova1#, Tomislav Cernava1#, Martina Köberl1,2, Stefan Liebminger3, Mohammad Etemadi1,2, and Gabriele Berg1* 1 Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, 8010 Graz, Austria 2 Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria 3 Roombiotic GmbH, Petersgasse 12, 8010 Graz, Austria # These authors contributed equally to this work Supplementary Table S1 Relative abundances of Paenibacillus spp. within selected biomes Biome Sample Sequencing Country Method Plant rhizosphere Plant phyllosphere Number of Abundance of Study Additional Analyzed Paenibacillus Information Sequences spp. [%]1 (Accession #) Matricaria chamomilla IBMS Egypt 28,900,898 2.05 Köberl et al.² npa Solanum distichum IBMS Egypt 29,684,017 0.70 Köberl et al.² npa Eruca sativa IBMS Austria 23,192,621 1.03 Erlacher et al.² npa Oryza sativa PBMS Philippines 1,026,982 1.33 Knief et al. (2011) 4449956.3a Arabidopsis thaliana PBMS Spain 1,098,311 0.00 Delmotte et al. (2009) 4447810.3a Eruca sativa IBMS Austria 26,534,191 3.04 Erlacher et al.² npa Oryza sativa PBMS Philippines 2,213,945 4.06 Knief et al. (2011) 4450328.3a Soil Lichen thalli Indoor microbiome Agricultural soil IBMS USA 17,442,824 0.25 Smith et al.3 4508940.3a Home garden soil IBMS Austria 19,031,310 1.62 Erlacher et al.² npa Desert soil PBAS Egypt 19,244 0.19 Köberl et al. (2011) npa Desert farming soil PBAS Egypt 33,384 1.40 Köberl et al. (2011) npa Lobaria pulmonaria IBMS Austria 76,310,051 0.01 Grube et al. (2015) 4530091.3a Cladonia furcata IBMS Austria 21,711,407 0.02 Cernava et al.² npa Peltigera polydactylon IBMS Austria 19,711,397 0.04 Cernava et al.² npa Clean room (ISO-8) PBAS Germany 1,895 4.00 Moissl-Eichinger et al. npa (2015) 1 Clean room (100K) IBAS USA 35,674 0.10 Mahnert et al.3 PRJEB8763b Clean room surroundings IBAS USA 35,880 2.00 Mahnert et al.3 PRJEB8763b Abundances are based on Greengenes database assignments within all bacterial rRNA gene sequences in the specified sample ² The authors had exclusive access to these datasets to extract required taxonomic information for this review 3 Unpublished study with data publicly available a MG-RAST ID (http://metagenomics.anl.gov/) b ENA primary accession (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) IBMS: Illumina-based metagenome sequencing, PBMS: Pyrosequencing-based metagenome sequencing, PBAS: Pyrosequencing-based amplicon sequencing, IBAS: Illuminabased amplicon sequencing, npa: dataset was not publicly available Supplementary Figure S1 Phylogram of 16S rRNA gene sequences from the type strains of 116 species belonging to the genus Paenibacillus.