A database for the taxonomic and phylogenetic identification of the genus Bradyrhizobium using multilocus sequence analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biological nitrogen fixation, with an emphasis on the legume-rhizobia symbiosis, is a key process for agriculture and the environment, allowing the replacement of nitrogen fertilizers, reducing water pollution by nitrate as well as emission of greenhouse gases. Soils contain numerous strains belonging to the bacterial genus Bradyrhizobium, which establish symbioses with a variety of legumes. However, due to the high conservation of Bradyrhizobium 16S rRNA genes - considered as the backbone of the taxonomy of prokaryotes - few species have been delineated. The multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) methodology, which includes analysis of housekeeping genes, has been shown to be promising and powerful for defining bacterial species, and, in this study, it was applied to Brady

SUBMITTER: Azevedo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4460661 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature