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Description of Devosia neptuniae sp. nov. that nodulates and fixes nitrogen in symbiosis with Neptunia natans, an aquatic legume from India.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Mar 2003
Rivas Raúl, Willems Anne, Subba-Rao Nanjappa S, Mateos Pedro F, Dazzo Frank B, Kroppenstedt Reiner M, Martínez-Molina Eustoquio, Gillis Monique, Velázquez Encarna
Abstract excerpt
Neptunia natans is a unique aquatic legume indigenous to tropical and sub-tropical regions and is nodulated symbiotically by rhizobia using an unusual infection process unlike any previously described. Previously, isolates of neptunia-nodulating rhizobia from Senegal were characterized as Allorhizobium undicola. Here we report on a different group of neptunia-nodulating rhizobia isolated from India. Sequencing of...
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