Azorhizobium
| Azorhizobium | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhizobiales |
| Family: | Xanthobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Azorhizobium Dreyfus et al. 1988 |
| Type species | |
| Azorhizobium caulinodans | |
| Species[1] | |
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Azorhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria. They fix nitrogen in symbiosis with plants in the genus Sesbania. Strain ORS571 of A. caulinodans has been fully sequenced.[2]
References
- ↑ "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature —Azorhizobium". Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ↑ Lee, K. B. et al. (2008). "The genome of the versatile nitrogen fixer Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571". BMC Genomics 9 (4): 271. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-271. PMC 2443382. PMID 18522759.