''Mesorhizobium'' is a

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. At least one, the

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species, ''Mesorhizobium loti'', forms symbiotic root nodules with plants in the genus '' Lotus''. Strain MAFF303099 of ''M. japonicum'' has been fully sequenced.

Species

Accepted Species

''Mesorhizobium'' comprises the following species: * '' M. abyssinicae'' Degefu ''et al''. 2013 * '' M. acaciae'' Zhu et al. 2015 * '' M. albiziae'' Wang ''et al''. 2007 * '' M. alhagi'' Chen ''et al''. 2010 * '' M. amorphae'' Wang ''et al''. 1999 * '' M. atlanticum'' Ferraz Helene ''et al''. 2019 * '' M. australicum'' Nandasena ''et al''. 2009 * '' M. calcicola'' De Meyer et al. 2016 * '' M. camelthorni'' Chen ''et al''. 2010 * '' M. cantuariense'' De Meyer et al. 2015 * '' M. caraganae'' Guan ''et al''. 2008 * '' M. carbonis'' Li ''et al''. 2019 * '' M. carmichaelinearum'' De Meyer ''et al''. 2019 * '' M. chacoense'' Velázquez ''et al''. 2001 * '' M. ciceri'' (Nour ''et al''. 1994) Jarvis ''et al''. 1997 * '' M. composti'' Lin ''et al''. 2020 * '' M. delmotii'' Mohamad ''et al''. 2018 * '' M. ephedrae'' Liu ''et al''. 2018 * '' M. erdmanii'' Martínez-Hidalgo ''et al''. 2015 * '' M. gobiense'' Han ''et al''. 2008 * '' M. hankyongi'' Siddiqi ''et al''. 2019 * '' M. hawassense'' Degefu ''et al''. 2013 * '' M. helmanticense'' Marcos-García ''et al''. 2017 * '' M. huakuii'' (Chen ''et al''. 1991) Jarvis ''et al''. 1997 * '' M. japonicum''Martinez-Hidalgo et al. 2016 * '' M. jarvisii'' Martínez-Hidalgo ''et al''. 2015 * '' M. kowhai'' De Meyer et al. 2016 * '' M. loti'' (Jarvis ''et al''. 1982) Jarvis ''et al''. 1997 * '' M. mediterraneum'' (Nour ''et al''. 1995) Jarvis ''et al''. 1997 * '' M. metallidurans'' Vidal ''et al''. 2009 * '' M. muleiense'' Zhang ''et al''. 2012 * '' M. newzealandense''De Meyer et al. 2016 * '' M. norvegicum'' Kabdullayeva ''et al''. 2020 * '' M. oceanicum'' Fu ''et al''. 2017 * '' M. olivaresii'' Lorite ''et al''. 2017 * '' M. opportunistum'' Nandasena ''et al''. 2009 * '' M. plurifarium'' de Lajudie ''et al''. 1998 * '' M. prunaredense'' Mohamad ''et al''. 2018 * '' M. qingshengii'' Zheng ''et al''. 2013 * '' M. robiniae'' Zhou et al. 2010 * '' M. sangaii'' Zhou ''et al''. 2013 * '' M. sanjuanii'' Sannazzaro ''et al''. 2018 * '' M. sediminum'' Yuan et al. 2016 * '' M. septentrionale'' Gao ''et al''. 2004 * '' M. shangrilense'' Lu ''et al''. 2009 * '' M. shonense'' Degefu ''et al''. 2013 * '' M. silamurunense'' Zhao ''et al''. 2012 * '' M. soli'' Nguyen et al. 2015 * '' M. sophorae'' De Meyer et al. 2016 * '' M. tamadayense'' Ramírez-Bahena ''et al''. 2012 ** symbiovar ''loti'' ** symbiovar ''tamadayense'' * '' M. tarimense'' Han ''et al''. 2008 * '' M. temperatum'' Gao ''et al''. 2004 * '' M. terrae'' Jung ''et al''. 2021 * '' M. thiogangeticum'' Ghosh and Roy 2006 * '' M. tianshanense'' (Chen ''et al''. 1995) Jarvis ''et al''. 1997 * '' M. waimense'' De Meyer et al. 2015 * '' M. waitakense'' De Meyer et al. 2016 * '' M. wenxiniae'' Zhang ''et al''. 2018

Provisional Species

The following species have been described, but not validated according to the

Bacteriological Code The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB) or Bacteriological Code (BC) governs the scientific names for Bacteria and Archaea.P. H. A. Sneath, 2003. A short histor ...

: * "''M. alexandrii''" Yang ''et al''. 2020 * "''M. denitrificans''" Siddiqi ''et al''. 2019 * "''Candidatus'' Mesorhizobium hominis" Lo ''et al''. 2013 * "''M. hungaricum''" Crovadore ''et al''. 2016 * "''M. intechi''" Estrella ''et al''. 2020 * "''M. rhizophilum''" Gao ''et al''. 2020 * "''M. zhangyense''" Xu ''et al''. 2018

References

External links

Complete proteome of ''M. loti''
at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Phyllobacteriaceae Bacteria genera {{Phyllobacteriaceae-stub