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SUBMITTER: Reeve W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3035254 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Standards in genomic sciences 20100228 1
Rhizobium leguminosarum bv trifolii is the effective nitrogen fixing microsymbiont of a diverse range of annual and perennial Trifolium (clover) species. Strain WSM2304 is an aerobic, motile, non-spore forming, Gram-negative rod, isolated from Trifolium polymorphum in Uruguay in 1998. This microsymbiont predominated in the perennial grasslands of Glencoe Research Station, in Uruguay, to competitively nodulate its host, and fix atmospheric nitrogen. Here we describe the basic features of WSM2304, ...[more]