Since early studies, the history of prokaryotes taxonomy has dealt with many changes driven
by the development of new and more robust technologies. As a result, the number of new …

Rhizobia are a diazotrophic group of bacteria that are usually isolated form the nodules in
roots, stem of leguminous plants and are able to form nodules in the host plant owing to the …

Professor Esperanza Martinez-Romero resigned as the chairperson of the subcommittee;
the subcommittee is grateful to her for the many years since the 1990s that she held this …

The alphaproteobacterial family Rhizobiaceae is highly diverse, with 168 species with
validly published names classified into 17 genera with validly published names. Most …

Farrand et al.[Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53 (2003), 1681–1687] have presented a critique of
the proposal of Young et al.[Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51 (2001), 89–103] to revise the …

Herein the members of the Subcommittee on Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria of the
International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes review recent developments in …

Phylogenomic analyses showed two major superclades within the family Rhizobiaceae that
corresponded to the Rhizobium/Agrobacterium and Shinella/Ensifer groups. Within the …

Minute 3. Membership issues. The new subcommittee member Gehong Wei, China, was
welcomed. It was proposed to invite Dr Kemanthie Nandasena, Australia, to the …

Minute 1. Call to order. The closed meeting opened at 21: 00 on 7 September 2010, during
the 9th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. JPW Young was …

Genomic ANI (Average Nucleotide Identity) has been found to be able to replace DNA-DNA
hybridization in prokaryote taxonomy. The ANI of each of the core genes that has a …