Biology:Neorhizobium

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Short description: Genus of bacteria


Neorhizobium
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Rhizobiaceae
Genus: Neorhizobium
Mousavi et al. 2014[1]
Type species
Neorhizobium galegae
Lindström 1989
Species[2]
  • Neorhizobium alkalisoli (Lu et al. 2009) Mousavi et al. 2015
  • Neorhizobium galegae (Lindström 1989) Mousavi et al. 2015
  • Neorhizobium huautlense (Wang et al. 1998) Mousavi et al. 2015
  • "Neorhizobium lilium" Liu et al. 2020
  • Neorhizobium petrolearium (Zhang et al. 2012) Kuzmanović et al. 2022
  • Neorhizobium tomejilense Soenens et al. 2020
  • Neorhizobium vignae (Ren et al. 2011) Hördt et al. 2020

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

References

  1. "Phylogeny of the RhizobiumAllorhizobiumAgrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov.". Syst Appl Microbiol 37 (3): 208–15. 2014. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2013.12.007. PMID 24581678. 
  2. "Neorhizobium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/neorhizobium. 

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