Pararhizobium

Pararhizobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhizobiales
Family:	Rhizobiaceae
Genus:	Pararhizobium; Mousavi et al. 2015
Type species
	Pararhizobium giardinii; (Amarger et al. 1997) Mousavi et al. 2015
Species
	Pararhizobium capsulatum (Hirsch and Müller 1986) Mousavi et al. 2015; Pararhizobium giardinii (Amarger et al. 1997) Mousavi et al. 2015 symbiovar giardinii; symbiovar phaseoli; ; Pararhizobium helanshanense (Qin et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2015; Pararhizobium herbae (Ren et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2015; Pararhizobium polonicum Puławska et al. 2016; Pararhizobium sphaerophysae (Xu et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2015;

Pararhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. It was recently segregated from the genus Rhizobium. Pararhizobium forms an endosymbiotic nitrogen fixing association with roots of legumes.

References

^ Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindström K (2015). "Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations". Syst Appl Microbiol. 38 (2): 84–90. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2014.12.003. PMID 25595870.
^ ^a ^b Amarger N, Macheret V, Laguerre G (1997). "Rhizobium gallicum sp. nov. and Rhizobium giardinii sp. nov., from Phaseolus vulgaris nodules". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47 (4): 996–1006. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-4-996. PMID 9336898.
^ Ren DW, Wang ET, Chen WF, Sui XH, Zhang XX, Liu HC, Chen WX (2011). "Rhizobium herbae sp. nov. and Rhizobium giardinii-related bacteria, minor microsymbionts of various wild legumes in China". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 61 (8): 1912–20. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.024943-0. PMID 20833881.
^ Puławskaa J, Kuzmanović N, Willems A, Pothierd JF (2016). "Pararhizobium polonicum sp. nov. isolated from tumors on stone fruit rootstocks". Syst Appl Microbiol: in press. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2016.03.002.