Pararhizobium

Pararhizobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhizobiales
Family:	Rhizobiaceae
Genus:	Pararhizobium Mousavi et al. 2015[1]
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[2] symbiovar phaseoli[2] Pararhizobium helanshanense (Qin et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2015 Pararhizobium herbae (Ren et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2015[3] Pararhizobium polonicum Puławska et al. 2016[4] 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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.