''Paraburkholderia phytofirmans'' is a species of
bacteria. They have been reported to colonize
endophytic
An endophyte is an endosymbiont, often a bacterium or fungus, that lives within a plant for at least part of its life cycle without causing apparent disease. Endophytes are ubiquitous and have been found in all species of plants studied to date; h ...
tissues of hybrid spruce (
Picea glauca x
engelmannii) and
lodgepole pine with a strong potential to perform
biological nitrogen fixation and plant growth promotion.
References
phytofirmans
Bacteria described in 2005
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