Bradyrhizobium japonicum
| Bradyrhizobium japonicum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Nitrobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Bradyrhizobium |
| Species: | B. japonicum
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| Binomial name | |
| Bradyrhizobium japonicum (Kirchner 1896) Jordan, 1982
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Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a species of legume-root nodulating, microsymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The species is one of many Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria commonly referred to as rhizobia. Within that broad classification, which has three groups, taxonomy studies using DNA sequencing indicate that B. japonicum belongs within homology group II.[2]
- ^ Jordan, D. C. (1982). "Transfer of Rhizobium japonicum Buchanan 1980 to Bradyrhizobium gen. nov., a Genus of Slow-Growing, Root Nodule Bacteria from Leguminous Plants". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 32: 136–139. doi:10.1099/00207713-32-1-136.
- ^ Hollis, A. B.; Kloos, W. E.; Elkan, G. E. (1981). "DNA:DNA hybridization studies of Rhizobium japonicum and related Rhizobiaceae". Journal of General Microbiology. 123 (2): 215–222. doi:10.1099/00221287-123-2-215.