Mesorhizobium shonense sp. nov., Mesorhizobium hawassense sp. nov. and Mesorhizobium abyssinicae sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of different agroforestry legume trees

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART 5, 2013, Pages 1746-1753

  Degefu, Tulu ^a   Wolde meskel, Endalkachew ^a,b   Liu, Binbin ^a   Cleenwerck, Ilse ^c   Willems, Anne ^c   Frostegård, Åsa ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LEGUME; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM ABYSSINICAE; MESORHIZOBIUM AMORPHAE; MESORHIZOBIUM HAWASSENSE; MESORHIZOBIUM PLURIFARIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM SEPTENTRIONALE; MESORHIZOBIUM SHONENSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84877858215     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.044032-0     Document Type: Article

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