Bradyrhizobium betae

Species of bacterium

Bradyrhizobium betae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Nitrobacteraceae
Genus:	Bradyrhizobium
Species:	B. betae
Binomial name
*Bradyrhizobium betae* Rivas et al. 2004

Bradyrhizobium betae is a species of legume-root nodulating, microsymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium first isolated from the roots of Beta vulgaris, hence its name. It is slow-growing an endophytic. The type strain is PL7HG1^T (=LMG 21987^T =CEC^T 5829^T).^[1]

References

^ Rivas, R. (2004). "Bradyrhizobium betae sp. nov., isolated from roots of Beta vulgaris affected by tumour-like deformations". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (4): 1271–1275. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02971-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 15280302.

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Menna, Pâmela; Gomes Barcellos, Fernando; Hungria, Mariangela (2009). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of a diverse collection of Bradyrhizobium strains based on multilocus sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene, ITS region and glnII, recA, atpD and dnaK genes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (12): 2934–2950. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.009779-0. PMID 19628593.