Reclassification of type strains of <i>Rhizobium indigoferae</i> and <i>Sinorhizobium kummerowiae</i> into the species <i>Rhizobium leguminosarum</i> and <i>Sinorhizobium meliloti</i>, respectively.

ABSTRACT: The species Rhizobium indigoferae and Sinorhizobium kummerowiae were isolated from legume nodules and the 16S rRNA sequences of their respective type strains, CCBAU 71042^T and CCBAU 71714^T, were highly divergent from those of the other species of the genera Rhizobium and Sinorhizobium, respectively. However, the 16S rRNA gene sequences obtained for strains CCBAU 71042^T and CCBAU 71714^T several years after description, were different from the original ones, showing 100 % similarity to the type strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum and Sinorhizobium meliloti, respectively. Phylogenetic analyses of two housekeeping genes, recA and atpD, confirmed the high phylogenetic closeness of strains CCBAU 71

SUBMITTER: Menendez E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11316585 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature