Mesorhizobium

Mesorhizobium
Mesorhizobium loti strain MAFF303099 on an agar plate.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhizobiales
Family:	Phyllobacteriaceae
Genus:	Mesorhizobium Jarvis et al. 1997
Type species
Rhizobium leguminosarum
Species[1]
M. abyssinicae Degefu et al. 2013 M. albiziae Wang et al. 2007 M. alhagi Chen et al. 2010 M. amorphae Wang et al. 1999 M. australicum Nandasena et al. 2009 M. camelthorni Chen et al. 2010 M. caraganae Guan et al. 2008 M. chacoense Velázquez et al. 2001 M. ciceri (Nour et al. 1994) Jarvis et al. 1997 M. erdmanii Martínez-Hidalgo et al. 2015 M. gobiense Han et al. 2008 M. hawassense Degefu et al. 2013 "Candidatus Mesorhizobium hominis" Lo et al. 2013[2] M. huakuii (Chen et al. 1991) Jarvis et al. 1997 M. jarvisii Martínez-Hidalgo et al. 2015 M. loti (Jarvis et al. 1982) Jarvis et al. 1997 M. mediterraneum (Nour et al. 1995) Jarvis et al. 1997 M. metallidurans Vidal et al. 2009 M. muleiense Zhang et al. 2012 M. opportunistum Nandasena et al. 2009 M. plurifarium de Lajudie et al. 1998 M. qingshengii Zheng et al. 2013 M. robiniae Zhou et al. 2010 M. sangaii Zhou et al. 2013 M. septentrionale Gao et al. 2004 M. shangrilense Lu et al. 2009 M. shonense Degefu et al. 2013 M. silamurunense Zhao et al. 2012 M. tamadayense Ramírez-Bahena et al. 2012 symbiovar loti symbiovar tamadayense M. tarimense Han et al. 2008 M. temperatum Gao et al. 2004 M. thiogangeticum Ghosh and Roy 2006 M. tianshanense (Chen et al. 1995) Jarvis et al. 1997

Mesorhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria. At least one, the nitrogen fixing species, Mesorhizobium loti, forms symbiotic root nodules with plants in the genus Lotus. Strain MAFF303099 of M. loti has been fully sequenced.^[3]

References

1. "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature—Mesorhizobium". Retrieved 20 July 2010.
2. Lo, S. C.; Li, B.; Hung, G. C.; Lei, H.; Li, T.; Zhang, J.; Nagamine, K.; Tsai, S.; Zucker, M. J.; Olesnicky, L. (2013). "Isolation and Characterization of Two Novel Bacteria Afipia cberi and Mesorhizobium hominis from Blood of a Patient Afflicted with Fatal Pulmonary Illness". PLoS ONE. 8 (12): e82673. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082673.
3. Kaneko, T.; et al. (2000). "Complete Genome Structure of the Nitrogen-fixing Symbiotic Bacterium Mesorhizobium loti". DNA Research. 7 (6): 331–338. doi:10.1093/dnares/7.6.331. PMID 11214968.

External links

• Complete proteome of M. loti at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics