Rhizobium
Sign in to saveRhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. Rhizobium species form an endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing association with roots of (primarily) legumes and other flowering plants.
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Rhizobium is a genus of gram-negative bacteria within the family Rhizobiaceae. It belongs to the kingdom Bacteria, phylum Proteobacteria, class Alphaproteobacteria, and order Rhizobiales. The taxonomic type for this genus is Rhizobium leguminosarum, and it has the synonym Agrobacterium.
Records of this organism are held by various institutions and databases. The iDigBio database contains 12 records associated with the institution CCG-UNAM in Mexico. Additionally, there are 43,510 occurrence records listed in GBIF and 12,877 entries in PubMed.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumProteobacteria
- ClassAlphaproteobacteria
- OrderRhizobiales
- FamilyRhizobiaceae
via GBIF
Research
12,877 papers- Rhizobium lupini genetics.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 1979
- The Rhizobium-plant symbiosis.Microbiological reviews · 1995
- Coevolution in Rhizobium-legume symbiosis?DNA and cell biology · 2009
- Rhizobium nod factor perception and signalling.The Plant cell · 2002
- Rhizobium oryziradicis sp. nov., isolated from rice roots.International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology · 2017
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
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Rhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. Rhizobium species form an endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing association with roots of (primarily) legumes and other flowering plants.
The bacteria colonize plant cells to form root nodules, where they convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia using the enzyme nitrogenase. The ammonia is shared with the host plant in the form of organic nitrogenous compounds such as glutamine or ureides. The plant, in turn, provides the bacteria with organic compounds made by photosynthesis. This mutually beneficial relationship is true of all of the rhizobia, of which the genus Rhizobium is a typical example. Rhizobium is also capable of solubilizing phosphate.
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