Grain legumes are an important component of sustainable agri-food systems. They establish
symbiotic association with rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, thus reducing the use …

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

Grain legumes play a significant role in smallholder farming systems in Africa because of
their contribution to nutrition and income security and their role in fixing nitrogen. Biological …

Although microorganisms are known to dominate Earth's biospheres and drive
biogeochemical cycling, little is known about the geographic distributions of microbial …

Aims To describe the structure of nodules of Vachellia (Acacia) jacquemontii, and to
characterise the rhizobia that occupy them. Methods Light and electron microscopy were …

Some species of the genus Paraburkholderia that are able to nodulate and fix nitrogen in
symbiosis with legumes are called β-rhizobia and represent a group of ecological and …

A thermophilic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium isolated from the Yumthang hot spring
in North Sikkim, India was subjected to taxonomic studies. The thermophilic bacterial isolate …

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) used to be considered a restrictive host that nodulated and
fixed nitrogen only with Mesorhizobium ciceri and M. mediterraneum. Recent analysis …

The impact of global climate change on biodiversity is a focus of concern due to the rapid
loss of biodiversity (Ceballos et al., 2017). Revealing the long-term adaptive and phenotypic …

South Africa is well-known for the diversity of its legumes and their nitrogen-fixing bacterial
symbionts. However, in contrast to their plant partners, remarkably few of these microbes …