Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1536

Name

Azorhizobium Dreyfus et al. 1988 emend. Lang et al. 2013

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Xanthobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Azorhizobium caulinodans Dreyfus et al. 1988 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Azorhizobium doebereinerae Moreira et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Azorhizobium oxalatiphilum Lang et al. 2013

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Xanthobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Azorhizobium Dreyfus et al. 1988 emend. Lang et al. 2013

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Azorhizobium Dreyfus et al. 1988 emend. Lang et al. 2013. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1536.


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VIII. Hyphomicrobiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 476.
Dreyfus B, Garcia JL, Gillis M. Characterization of Azorhizobium caulinodans gen. nov. a stem nodulating nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from Sesbania rastrata. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:89-98. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-38-1-89.
Lang E, Schumann P, Adler S, Spröer C, Sahin N. Azorhizobium oxalatiphilum sp. nov., and emended description of the genus Azorhizobium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1505-1511. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.045229-0 [PubMed].
Moreira FMS, Cruz L, Faria SM, Marsh T, Martínez-Romero E, Pedrosa FO, Pitard RM, Young JPW. Azorhizobium doebereinerae sp. Nov. Microsymbiont of Sesbania virgata (Caz.) Pers. Syst Appl Microbiol 2006; 29:197-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2005.09.004 [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].