Diversity and plant growth promoting properties of rhizobia isolated from root nodules of Ononis arvensis.

ABSTRACT: This is the first report describing isolates from root nodules of Ononis arvensis (field restharrow). The aim of this investigation was to describe the diversity, phylogeny, and plant growth promoting features of microsymbionts of O. arvensis, i.e., a legume plant growing in different places of the southern part of Poland. Twenty-nine bacterial isolates were characterized in terms of their phenotypic properties, genome fingerprinting, and comparative analysis of their 16S rRNA, nodC and acdS gene sequences. Based on the nodC and 16S rRNA gene phylogenies, the O. arvensis symbionts were grouped close to bacteria of the genera Rhizobium and Mesorhizobium, which formed monophyletic clusters. The acdS gene sequences of all the isolates tested exhibited the highest similarities to the correspon

SUBMITTER: Wdowiak-Wrobel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511607 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature