Allorhizobium undicola gen. nov., sp. nov., nitrogen-fixing bacteria that efficiently nodulate Neptunia natans in Senegal

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1277-1290

  De Lajudie, Philippe ^a,b   Laurent Fulele, Etike ^a   Willems, Anne ^b,c   Torck, Urbain ^b   Coopman, Renata ^b   Collins, Matthew D ^c   Kersters, Karel ^b   Dreyfus, Bernard ^a,d   Gillis, Monique ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Allorhizobium undicola; Neptunia natans; Nitrogen fixation; Polyphasic taxonomy; Tropical rhizobia

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ALLORHIZOBIUM UNDICOLA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOBIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; ALLORHIZOBIUM UNDICOLA; AZORHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM; NEPTUNIA NATANS; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0031751658     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-4-1277     Document Type: Article

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