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]
	A. caulinodans Dreyfus et al. 1988; A. doebereinerae Moreira et al. 2006; A. oxalatiphilum Lang et al. 2013;

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". Archived from the original on 2012-05-23. 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.

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[1] "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature —Azorhizobium". Archived from the original on 2012-05-23. Retrieved 2013-11-26.

[2] 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.