COST Action HUPLANT Bacillus course. Bacillus cereus group sp.

The phylogeny, identification and characterization of 33 B. cereus sensu lato isolates originating from 17 agricultural soils from 11 countries are analyzed based on whole genome sequencing. The phylogenetic analyses divides the isolates into five groups which follows the phylogenetically division of B. cereus sensu lato generally accepted. Identification of the isolates by four different methods resulted in variation in the identity of the isolates, as none of the isolates was identified as the same species by all four methods, only the recent identification method proposed by Carroll et al. (2020) directly reflected the phylogeny of the isolates. This point to the importance of describing the basis and the method used for the identification