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SUBMITTER: Reeve W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3035254 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reeve Wayne W O'Hara Graham G Chain Patrick P Ardley Julie J Bräu Lambert L Nandesena Kemanthi K Tiwari Ravi R Malfatti Stephanie S Kiss Hajnalka H Lapidus Alla A Copeland Alex A Nolan Matt M Land Miriam M Ivanova Natalia N Mavromatis Konstantinos K Markowitz Victor V Kyrpides Nikos N Melino Vanessa V Denton Matthew M Yates Ron R Howieson John J
Standards in genomic sciences 20100228 1
Rhizobium leguminosarum bv trifolii is the effective nitrogen fixing microsymbiont of a diverse range of annual and perennial Trifolium (clover) species. Strain WSM2304 is an aerobic, motile, non-spore forming, Gram-negative rod, isolated from Trifolium polymorphum in Uruguay in 1998. This microsymbiont predominated in the perennial grasslands of Glencoe Research Station, in Uruguay, to competitively nodulate its host, and fix atmospheric nitrogen. Here we describe the basic features of WSM2304, ...[more]