Pararhizobium

Pararhizobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhizobiales
Family: Rhizobiaceae
Genus: Pararhizobium
Mousavi et al. 2015[1]
Type species
Pararhizobium giardinii
(Amarger et al. 1997) Mousavi et al. 2015
Species
  • Pararhizobium capsulatum (Hirsch and Müller 1986) Mousavi et al. 2015
  • Pararhizobium giardinii (Amarger et al. 1997) Mousavi et al. 2015
    • symbiovar giardinii[2]
    • symbiovar phaseoli[2]
  • Pararhizobium helanshanense (Qin et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2015
  • Pararhizobium herbae (Ren et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2015[3]
  • Pararhizobium polonicum Puławska et al. 2016[4]
  • Pararhizobium sphaerophysae (Xu et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2015

Pararhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. It was recently segregated from the genus Rhizobium. Pararhizobium forms an endosymbiotic nitrogen fixing association with roots of legumes.

References

  1. ↑ Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindström K (2015). "Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations". Syst Appl Microbiol. 38 (2): 84–90. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2014.12.003. PMID 25595870.
  2. 1 2 Amarger N, Macheret V, Laguerre G (1997). "Rhizobium gallicum sp. nov. and Rhizobium giardinii sp. nov., from Phaseolus vulgaris nodules". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47 (4): 996–1006. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-4-996. PMID 9336898.
  3. ↑ Ren DW, Wang ET, Chen WF, Sui XH, Zhang XX, Liu HC, Chen WX (2011). "Rhizobium herbae sp. nov. and Rhizobium giardinii-related bacteria, minor microsymbionts of various wild legumes in China". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 61 (8): 1912–20. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.024943-0. PMID 20833881.
  4. ↑ Puławskaa J, Kuzmanović N, Willems A, Pothierd JF (2016). "Pararhizobium polonicum sp. nov. isolated from tumors on stone fruit rootstocks". Syst Appl Microbiol: in press. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2016.03.002.
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