Rhizobium leguminosarum

Rhizobium leguminosarum
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Rhizobiaceae
Genus: Rhizobium
Species:
R. leguminosarum
Binomial name
Rhizobium leguminosarum
(Frank 1879) Frank 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type strain
ATCC 10004
LMG 14904
strain 3Hoq18
USDA 2370
Biovars
  • symbiovar trifolii
  • symbiovar viciae
Synonyms
  • Rhizobium trifolii Dangeard 1926 (Approved Lists 1980)

Rhizobium leguminosarum is a bacterium which lives in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with legumes, and has the ability to fix free nitrogen from the air. R. leguminosarum has been very thoroughly studied—it has been the subject of more than a thousand publications.

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