Bradyrhizobium betae explained

Bradyrhizobium betae is a species of legume-root nodulating, microsymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium first isolated from the roots of Beta vulgaris, hence its name. It is slow-growing an endophytic. The type strain is PL7HG1^T (=LMG 21987^T =CEC^T 5829^T).^[1]

Further reading

• Appunu. C.. N'Zoue. A.. Laguerre. G.. Genetic Diversity of Native Bradyrhizobia Isolated from Soybeans (Glycine max L.) in Different Agricultural-Ecological-Climatic Regions of India. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74. 19. 2008. 5991–5996. 0099-2240. 10.1128/AEM.01320-08. 18676699. 2565974.
• Book: Newton, William E. . Werner, Dietrich . Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment (Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress) . Springer . Berlin . 2005 . 1-4020-3542-X .
• Polacco, Joe C., and Christopher D. Todd. Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Menna . Pâmela . Gomes Barcellos . Fernando . Hungria . Mariangela . 2009 . Phylogeny and taxonomy of a diverse collection of Bradyrhizobium strains based on multilocus sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene, ITS region and glnII, recA, atpD and dnaK genes . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 59 . 12. 2934–2950 . 10.1099/ijs.0.009779-0 . 19628593. free .

External links

• LPSN
  • Type strain of Bradyrhizobium betae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Rivas. R.. Bradyrhizobium betae sp. nov., isolated from roots of Beta vulgaris affected by tumour-like deformations. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54. 4. 2004. 1271–1275. 1466-5026. 10.1099/ijs.0.02971-0. 15280302. free.