Rhizobium

This article is about the bacterial genus. For the generic term that includes species in other genera, see Rhizobia.
Rhizobium
Rhizobium tropici on an agar plate.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhizobiales
Family: Rhizobiaceae
Genus: Rhizobium
Frank 1889
Type species
Rhizobium leguminosarum
Species[1]

See text.

Rhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. Rhizobium forms an endosymbiotic nitrogen fixing association with roots of legumes and Parasponia.

The bacteria colonize plant cells within root nodules where they convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia and then provide organic nitrogenous compounds such as glutamine or ureides to the plant. The plant in turn provides the bacteria with organic compounds made by photosynthesis.[2] This mutually beneficial relationship is true of all of the rhizobia, of which the Rhizobium genus is a typical example.

History

Beijerinck in the Netherlands was the first to isolate and cultivate a microorganism from the nodules of legumes in 1888. He named it Bacillus radicicola, which is now placed in Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology under the genus Rhizobium.

Research

Rhizobium forms a symbiotic relationship with certain plants such as legumes. The Rhizobium fixes nitrogen from the air into ammonia, which acts as a natural fertilizer for the plants. Current research is being conducted by Agricultural Research Service microbiologists to discover a way to utilize Rhizobium’s biological nitrogen fixation. This research involves the genetic mapping of various rhizobial species with its respective symbiotic plant species, like alfalfa or soybean. The goal of this research is to increase the plants’ productivity without using fertilizers.

In molecular biology, Rhizobium has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents and ultra-pure water systems, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.[3] The presence of nitrogen fixing bacteria as contaminants may be due to the use of nitrogen gas in ultra-pure water production to inhibit microbial growth in storage tanks.[4]

Species

  • Rhizobium aggregatum (Hirsch and Müller 1986) Kaur et al. 2011[5]
  • Rhizobium alamii Berge et al. 2009
  • Rhizobium alvei Sheu et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium anhuiense Zhang et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium azibense Mnasri et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium bangladeshense Harun-or Rashid et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium binae Harun-or Rashid et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium calliandrae Rincón-Rosales et al. 2013
  • Rhizobium capsici Lin et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium cauense Liu et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium cellulosilyticum García-Fraile et al. 2007
  • Rhizobium daejeonense Quan et al. 2005
  • Rhizobium ecuadorense Ribeiro et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium endolithicum Parag et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium endophyticum López-López et al. 2010
  • Rhizobium etli Segovia et al. 1993[6]
    • symbiovar mimosae
    • symbiovar phaseoli
  • Rhizobium fabae Tian et al. 2008
  • Rhizobium flavum Gu et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium freirei Dall'Agnol et all. 2013
  • Rhizobium gallicum Amarger et al. 1997
    • symbiovar gallicum[7]
    • symbiovar orientale[8]
    • symbiovar phaseoli[7]
  • Rhizobium grahamii López-López et al. 2011
  • Rhizobium hainanense Chen et al. 1997
  • Rhizobium halophytocola Bibi et al. 2012
  • Rhizobium halotolerans Diange and Lee 2013[9]
  • Rhizobium indigoferae Wei et al. 2002
  • Rhizobium jaguaris Rincón-Rosales et al. 2013
  • Rhizobium kunmingense Shen et al. 2010
  • Rhizobium laguerreae Saïdi et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium leguminosarum (Frank 1879) Frank 1889
    • symbiovar trifolii
    • symbiovar viciae
  • Rhizobium lemnae Kittiwongwattana & Thawai 2014
  • Rhizobium lentis Harun-or Rashid et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium leucaenae Ribeiro et al. 2011
  • Rhizobium loessense Wei et al. 2003
  • Rhizobium lusitanum Valverde et al. 2006
  • "Candidatus Rhizobium massiliae" Greub et al. 2004.
  • Rhizobium mayense Rincón-Rosales et al. 2013
  • Rhizobium mesoamericanum López-López et al. 2011
  • Rhizobium mesosinicum Lin et al. 2009
  • Rhizobium metallidurans Grison et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium miluonense Gu et al. 2008
  • Rhizobium mongolense Van Berkum et al. 1998[8]
  • Rhizobium multihospitium Han et al. 2008
  • Rhizobium naphthalenivorans Kaiya et al. 2012
  • Rhizobium oryzicola Zhang et al. 2015
  • Rhizobium pakistanensis Khalid et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium paranaense Dall'Agnol et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium petrolearium Zhang et al. 2012
  • Rhizobium phaseoli Dangeard 1926 emend. Ramírez-Bahena et al. 2008
  • Rhizobium phenanthrenilyticum Wen et al. 2011
  • Rhizobium pisi Ramírez-Bahena et al. 2008
    • symbiovar trifolii[10]
    • symbiovar viciae[10]
  • Rhizobium pongamiae Kesari et al. 2013[11]
  • Rhizobium populi Rozahon et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium qilianshanense Xu et al. 2013[12]
  • Rhizobium rhizogenes (Riker et al. 1930) Young et al. 2001
  • Rhizobium rhizoryzae Zhang et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium rosettiformans Kaur et al. 2011
  • Rhizobium selenitireducens corrig. Hunter et al. 2008
  • Rhizobium smilacinae Zhang et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium soli Yoon et al. 2010
  • Rhizobium sophorae Jiao et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium sophoriradicis Jiao et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium straminoryzae Lin et al. 2014
  • Rhizobium subbaraonis Ramana et al. 2013
  • Rhizobium sullae Squartini et al. 2002
  • Rhizobium tarimense Turdahon et al. 2012[13]
  • Rhizobium tibeticum Hou et al. 2009
  • Rhizobium tropici Martínez-Romero et al. 1991
  • Rhizobium tubonense Zhang et al. 2011
  • Rhizobium vallis Wang et all. 2011[14]
  • Rhizobium yanglingense Tan et al. 2001[8]
  • Rhizobium yantingense Chen et al. 2015

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) [1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[15] and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by The All-Species Living Tree Project [16]
















Rhizobium lusitanum Valverde et al. 2006



Rhizobium rhizogenes (Riker et al. 1930) Young et al. 2001



Agrobacterium rubi Hildebrand 1940





Rhizobium multihospitium Han et al. 2008



Rhizobium tropici Martínez-Romero et al. 1991




Rhizobium miluonense Gu et al. 2008





Rhizobium leguminosarum (Frank 1879) Frank 1889 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ramírez-Bahena et al. 2008[17]






Rhizobium endophyticum López-López et al. 2011



Rhizobium tibeticum Hou et al. 2009




Rhizobium etli Segovia et al. 1993





Rhizobium pisi Ramírez-Bahena et al. 2008




Rhizobium phaseoli Dangeard 1926 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ramírez-Bahena et al. 2008



Rhizobium fabae Tian et al. 2008




Rhizobium hainanense Chen et al. 1997





Arthrobacter viscosus Gasdorf et al. 1965[18]



Rhizobium alamii Berge et al. 2009



Rhizobium mesosinicum Lin et al. 2009





Rhizobium sullae Squartini et al. 2002




Rhizobium indigoferae Wei et al. 2002




Rhizobium gallicum Amarger et al. 1997



Rhizobium yanglingense Tan et al. 2001




Rhizobium mongolense Van Berkum et al. 1998



Rhizobium oryzae Peng et al. 2008




Rhizobium loessense Wei et al. 2003




Rhizobium tubonense Zhang et al. 2011







Rhizobium cellulosilyticum García-Fraile et al. 2007



Rhizobium soli Yoon et al. 2010





Neorhizobium galegae Lindström 1989



Neorhizobium vignae Ren et al. 2011





Neorhizobium huautlense Wang et al. 1998



Neorhizobium alkalisoli Lu et al. 2009




References

  1. 1 2 J.P. Euzéby. "Rhizobium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2012-05-02.
  2. Sawada H, Kuykendall LD, Young JM (2003). "Changing concepts in the systematics of bacterial nitrogen-fixing legume symbionts". J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 49 (3): 155–79. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.026484-0. PMID 21131504.
  3. Salter, S; Cox, M; Turek, E; Calus, S; Cookson, W; Moffatt, M; Turner, P; Parkhill, J; Loman, N; Walker, A (2014). "Reagent contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/007187.
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  5. NOTE: This strain was formerly named Blastobacter aggregatus.
  6. NOTE: This species was formerly known as R. leguminosarum sv. phaseoli.
  7. 1 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.
  8. 1 2 3 NOTE: R. gallicum and R. mongolense are 99.2% identical in their rDNA and may be the same species. It has been proposed by Silva et al. that R. mongolense and R. yanglingense be reclassified as R. gallicum sv. orientale.
  9. Diange, E. A.; Lee, S. S. (2013). "Rhizobium halotolerans sp. nov., Isolated from Chloroethylenes Contaminated Soil". Current Microbiology 66 (6): 599–605. doi:10.1007/s00284-013-0313-x. PMID 23377488.
  10. 1 2 Marek-Kozaczuk M, Leszcz A, Wielbo J, Wdowiak-Wróbel S, Skorupska A. (2013). "Rhizobium pisi sv. trifolii K3.22 harboring nod genes of the Rhizobium leguminosarum sv. trifolii cluster". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 36 (4): 252–8. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2013.01.005. PMID 23507586.
  11. Kesari, V.; Ramesh, A. M.; Rangan, L. (2013). "Rhizobium pongamiae sp. nov. From Root Nodules of Pongamia pinnata". BioMed Research International 2013: 1–9. doi:10.1155/2013/165198.
  12. Xu, Lin; Zhang, Yong; Deng, Zheng Shan; Zhao, Liang; Wei, Xiu Li; Wei, Ge Hong (2013). "Rhizobium qilianshanense sp. nov., a novel species isolated from root nodule of *Oxytropis ochrocephala Bunge in China". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 103 (3): 559–565. doi:10.1007/s10482-012-9840-x.
  13. Turdahon M, Osman G, Hamdun M, Yusuf K, Abdurehim Z, Abaydulla G, Abdukerim M, Fang C, Rahman E (2012). "Rhizobium tarimense sp. nov. isolated from soil in the ancient Khiyik river of Xinjiang, China". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 63 (Pt 7): 2424–9. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.042176-0. PMID 23203621.
  14. Fang Wang, En Tao Wang, Li Juan Wu, Xin Hua Sui, Ying Li Jr., and Wen Xin Chen (2011). "Rhizobium vallis sp. nov., isolated from nodules of three leguminous species". Int. J. Gen. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61 (11): 2582–2588. doi:10.2323/jgam.49.155. PMID 12949698.
  15. Sayers; et al. "Rhizobium/Agrobacterium group". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
  16. All-Species Living Tree Project."16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 (full tree)" (PDF). Silva Comprehensive Ribosomal RNA Database. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
  17. This is the type species for the genus.
  18. Arthrobacter viscosus is currently classified in the Micrococcaceae. See Arthrobacter.

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