''Herbaspirillum autotrophicum'' is a
bacterium
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ...
which cannot fix
nitrogen
Nitrogen is the chemical element with the symbol N and atomic number 7. Nitrogen is a nonmetal and the lightest member of group 15 of the periodic table, often called the pnictogens. It is a common element in the universe, estimated at se ...
under laboratory conditions, like ''
Herbaspirillum seropedicae
''Herbaspirillum seropedicae'' is a betaproteobacteria which is an endophytic diazotroph and forms nitrogen-fixing associations with maize ('' Zea mays''), rice (''Oryza sativa''), sorghum ('' Sorghum bicolor''), sugar cane (''Saccharum officinar ...
'', because it does not have the
''Nif'' gene.
[http://www.sgm.ac.uk/IJSEM/PiP/ijsem02975.pdf]
References
External links
Type strain of ''Herbaspirillum autotrophicum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiales
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