Rhizobium mongolense

Rhizobium mongolense is a Gram negative root nodule bacteria, which nodulates and forms nitrogen-fixing symbioses with Medicago ruthenica. Its type strain is USDA 1844.^[1]

Rhizobium mongolense
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Rhizobiaceae
Genus:	Rhizobium
Species:	R. mongolense
Binomial name
Rhizobium mongolense Van Berkum et al. 1998
Synonyms
Rhizobium loessense Wei et al. 2003

References

1. van Berkum, P.; Beyene, D.; Bao, G.; Campbell, T. A.; Eardly, B. D. (1998). "Rhizobium mongolense sp. nov. is one of three rhizobial genotypes identified which nodulate and form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with Medicago ruthenica [(L.) Ledebour]". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (1): 13–22. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-1-13. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9542071.

Further reading

• Torres Tejerizo, G.; Del Papa, M. F.; Soria-Diaz, M. E.; Draghi, W.; Lozano, M.; Giusti, M. d. l. A.; Manyani, H.; Megias, M.; Gil Serrano, A.; Puhler, A.; Niehaus, K.; Lagares, A.; Pistorio, M. (2010). "The Nodulation of Alfalfa by the Acid-Tolerant Rhizobium sp. Strain LPU83 Does Not Require Sulfated Forms of Lipochitooligosaccharide Nodulation Signals" (PDF). Journal of Bacteriology. 193 (1): 30–39. doi:10.1128/JB.01009-10. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 3019937. PMID 20971905.
• Villar-Igea, M.; Velázquez, E.; Rivas, R.; Willems, A.; Berkum, P.; Trujillo, M. E.; Mateos, P. F.; Gillis, M.; Martínez-Molina, E. (2007). Phosphate solubilizing rhizobia originating from Medicago, Melilotus and Trigonella grown in a Spanish soil. First International Meeting on Microbial Phosphate Solubilization. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences. Vol. 102. pp. 149–156. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5765-6_22. ISBN 978-1-4020-4019-1.

External links

• "Rhizobium mongolense" at the Encyclopedia of Life  
• LPSN
• Type strain of Rhizobium mongolense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase