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Phylogeny of Fast-Growing Soybean-Nodulating Rhizobia Supports Synonymy of Sinorhizobium and Rhizobium and Assignment to Rhizobium fredii

¹Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
²John Innes Institute, Norwich NR4 7UH, England

^* Corresponding author.

ABSTRACT

We determined the sequences for a 260-base segment amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (corresponding to positions 44 to 337 in the Escherichia coli 16S rRNA sequence) from seven strains of fast-growing soybean-nodulating rhizobia (including the type strains of Rhizobium fredii chemovar fredii, Rhizobium fredii chemovar siensis, Sinorhizobium fredii, and Sinorhizobium xinjiangensis) and broad-host-range Rhizobium sp. strain NGR 234. These sequences were compared with the corresponding previously published sequences of Rhizobium leguminosarum, Rhizobium meliloti, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Azorhizobium caulinodans, and Bradyrhizobium japonicum. All of the sequences of the fast-growing soybean rhizobia, including strain NGR 234, were identical to the sequence of R. meliloti and similar to the sequence of R. leguminosarum. These results are discussed in relation to previous findings; we concluded that the fast-growing soybean-nodulating rhizobia belong in the genus Rhizobium and should be called Rhizobium fredii.

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