Ideonella azotifigens

Ideonella azotifigens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Beta Proteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Ideonella
Species: I. azotifigens
Binomial name
Ideonella azotifigens
Noar and Buckley 2009, sp. nov.[1]
Type strain
1a22T, JCM 15503T, DSM 21438T[2]

Ideonella azotifigens is a nitrogen-fixing, gram-negative, oxidase- and weak catalase-positive aerobic, motile bacterium from the genus of Ideonella and the family of Comamonadaceae which was isolated from grass rhizosphere soil in Ithaca in the USA.[3]

References

  1. http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/ijk/ideonella.html
  2. http://www.torna.do/s/Ideonella-azotifigens-sp-nov-an-aerobic-diazotroph-of-the-Betaproteobacteria-isolated-from-grass-rhizosphere-soil-and-emended-description-of-the-genus-Ideonella/
  3. "Ideonella azotifigens sp. nov., an aerobic diazotroph of the Betaproteobacteria isolated from grass rhizosphere soil, and emended description of the genus Ideonella.". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59 (Pt 8): 1941–6. Aug 2009. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.003368-0. PMID 19567574.