Pararhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. Some species of Pararhizobium form an endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing association with roots of legumes.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Rhizobiaceae |
| Genus: | Pararhizobium Mousavi et al. 2016[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pararhizobium giardinii (Amarger et al. 1997) Mousavi et al. 2016
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References
edit- ^ Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindström K (2015). "Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations". Syst Appl Microbiol. 38 (2): 84–90. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2014.12.003. PMID 25595870.
- ^ Ren DW, Wang ET, Chen WF, Sui XH, Zhang XX, Liu HC, Chen WX (2011). "Rhizobium herbae sp. nov. and Rhizobium giardinii-related bacteria, minor microsymbionts of various wild legumes in China". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 61 (8): 1912–20. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.024943-0. PMID 20833881.
- ^ Puławskaa J, Kuzmanović N, Willems A, Pothierd JF (2016). "Pararhizobium polonicum sp. nov. isolated from tumors on stone fruit rootstocks". Syst Appl Microbiol. 39 (3): 164–169. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2016.03.002. PMID 27026286.
- ^ Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Pararhizobium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved September 16, 2022.