Neorhizobium

Neorhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. It was recently segregated from the genus Rhizobium. Neorhizobium forms an endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing association with roots of legumes.

Neorhizobium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Rhizobiaceae
Genus:	Neorhizobium Mousavi et al. 2014[1]
Type species
Neorhizobium galegae Lindström 1989
Species[2]
Neorhizobium alkalisoli (Lu et al. 2009) Mousavi et al. 2015 Neorhizobium galegae (Lindström 1989) Mousavi et al. 2015 Neorhizobium huautlense (Wang et al. 1998) Mousavi et al. 2015 "Neorhizobium lilium" Liu et al. 2020 Neorhizobium petrolearium (Zhang et al. 2012) Kuzmanović et al. 2022 Neorhizobium tomejilense Soenens et al. 2020 Neorhizobium vignae (Ren et al. 2011) Hördt et al. 2020

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. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Neorhizobium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved September 17, 2022.