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Azospirillum oryzae sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from the roots of the rice plant Oryza sativa

Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan

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Cheng-Hui Xie
aa37116{at}mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

The taxonomic position of the free-living diazotrophic strain COC8^T isolated from rice was investigated based on phylogenetic analyses. 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses indicated that strain COC8^T was closely related to the genus Azospirillum (96 % similarity). Chemotaxonomic characteristics (G+C content of the DNA 66·8 mol%, Q-10 quinone system, 18 : 17c as the major fatty acid and 14 : 0 3-OH and 16 : 0 3-OH as the major hydroxy fatty acids) were also similar to those of the genus Azospirillum. Based on its physiological characteristics, strain COC8^T can clearly be differentiated from recognized species of Azospirillum. The name Azospirillum oryzae sp. nov. is proposed to accommodate this bacterial strain; the type strain is COC8^T (=IAM 15130^T=CCTCC AB204051^T).

Published online ahead of print on 11 February 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63503-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA and nifH gene sequences of strain COC8^T are AB185396 and AB185395, respectively.

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