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Pantoea tagorei MR1 is a potassium-solubilizing multi-trait plant growth-promoting bacterium that was isolated from the rhizospheric soil of an open-cast coal mine of Jharia, Jharkhand, India. P. tagorei can grow in a broad range of temperature, pH, and NaCl concentrations. P. tagorei is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, short rod (0.7–0.9 µm of diameter × 2.0 µm of length), non-motile, non-spore-forming bacteria, occurring singly or in pairs. After 24 h of aerobic incubation at 37 °C on Luria agar medium, colonies are observed as yellow-pigmented, circular, and convex, with a diameter of approximately 1–2 mm. The isolate grows optimally at 37 °C, pH 7.0, in an Luria Broth medium supplemented with 0.17 M NaCl. The strain is positive for protease, catalase, gelatinase, oxidase, and chitinase; but negative for amylase, cellulase, and DNase. It is unable to hemolyzed blood. MR1 can utilize several carbon monomers and polymers, which include lactose, xylose, maltose, fructose, dextrose, galactose, raffinose, trehalose, melibiose, sucrose, l-arabinose, mannose, rhamnose, cellobiose, and sorbose. Isolate is highly susceptible to ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin. The primary cellular fatty acids of the strain are C16:0 (25.89%), summed feature 8 (C18:1ω7c and/or C18:1ω6c; 17.8%), summed feature 3 (C16:1ω7c and/or C16:1ω6c; 13.7%), summed feature 2 (comprising any combination of C12:0 aldehyde, an unknown fatty acid of equivalent chain length; 12.82%), C14:0 3-OH/16:1 iso I (11.1%), C12:0 (9%), C14:0 (6.83%), cyclo-C17:0 (4%), C18:1ω9c (2.55%), and C18:0 (1.44%). Notably, C13:0 anteiso (10-Methyldodecanoic acid), a methyl-branched saturated fatty acid is the unique one, and only present in the strain. The DNA has a G + C content of 58.68 mol% and a draft genome size of ~ 4.72 Mb. Pantoea (ta.go.rei. N.L. masc. gen. n. tagorei of Tagore), named after Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate and founder of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India; and his son Rathindranath Tagore, an agriculture scientist and the first Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati. The naming of this beneficial plant growth-promoting rhizospheric bacteria after Tagore is pertinent as the founder of Visva-Bharati and his son highly promoted indigenous agriculture for rural benefits.