Allorhizobium

Allorhizobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhizobiales
Family:	Rhizobiaceae
Genus:	Allorhizobium (de Lajudie et al. 1998) Mousavi et al. 2015[1][2]
Type species
Allorhizobium undicola de Lajudie et al. 1998
Species
Allorhizobium borbori (Zhang et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2015 Allorhizobium oryzae (Peng et al. 2008) Mousavi et al. 2015 Allorhizobium paknamense (Kittiwongwattana & Thawai 2013) Mousavi et al. 2015 Allorhizobium pseudoryzae (Zhang et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2015 Allorhizobium taibaishanense (Yao et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2015 Allorhizobium undicola de Lajudie et al. 1998 Allorhizobium vitis (Ophel and Kerr 1990) Mousavi et al. 2015

Allorhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria. It was recently segregated from the genus Rhizobium. Some species of Allorhizobium form an endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing association with roots of legumes, while others are known to cause crown gall.

References

1. Mousavi SA, Österman J, Wahlberg N, Nesme X, Lavire C, Vial L, Paulin L, de Lajudie P, Lindström K (2014). "Phylogeny of the Rhizobium–Allorhizobium–Agrobacterium clade supports the delineation of Neorhizobium gen. nov.". Syst Appl Microbiol. 37 (3): 208–15. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2013.12.007. PMID 24581678.
2. 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.