Paraburkholderia sprentiae

Paraburkholderia sprentiae is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Paraburkholderia and the family Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from root nodules from the plant Lebeckia ambigua in South Africa.[4][5]

Paraburkholderia sprentiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Beta Proteobacteria
Order:
Burkholderiales
Family:
Burkholderiaceae
Genus:
Paraburkholderia
Species:
P. sprentiae
Binomial name
Paraburkholderia sprentiae
(De Meyer et al. 2013) Sawana et al. 2015[1]
Type strain
WSM4187T[2]

WSM5005T
HAMBI 3357T
LMG 27175T
Vandamme R-49719T
WSM5005T

Synonyms
  • Burkholderia sprentiae De Meyer et al. 2013[3]

The species was named in honor of Professor Janet Sprent of Dundee University, in recognition of her work on nitrogen fixation.[4]

References
  1. Sawana A, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. (2014). "Molecular signatures and phylogenomic analysis of the genus Burkholderia: Proposal for division of this genus into the emended genus Burkholderia containing pathogenic organisms and a new genus Paraburkholderia gen. nov. harboring environmental species". Front. Genet. 5: 429. doi:10.3389/fgene.2014.00429. PMC 4271702. PMID 25566316.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. Straininfo of Burkholderia sprentiae
  3. LSPN bacterio.net
  4. De Meyer, S. E.; Cnockaert, M.; Ardley, J. K.; Maker, G.; Yates, R.; Howieson, J. G.; Vandamme, P. (2013). "Burkholderia sprentiae sp. nov., isolated from Lebeckia ambigua root nodules" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 11): 3950–7. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.048777-0. PMID 23710047.
  5. Taxonomy Browser


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