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SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Sinorhizobium |
| Species: | Sinorhizobium medicae |
| Description: | Sinorhiozbium medicae is a gram-negative, Nitrogen-fixing, rod-shaped bacterium. It can be free living or a symbiont of leguminous plants in root nodules. S.medicae was first isolated from root nodules on plants in the Medicago genus. Some strains of S.medicae, like WSM419, are aerobic. They are chemoorganotrophic mesophiles that prefer temperatures around 28 °C. In addition to their primary genome, these organisms also have three known plasmids, sized 1,570,951 bp, 1,245,408 bp and 219,313 bp. |
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| Source: | Isolated from Medicago truncatula, where it forms nitrogen-fixing root nodules. |
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| Genbank: | NC_009636.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.78 |
| GC %: | 61.5 |
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| Reference: | ROME (S.), FERNANDEZ (M.P.), BRUNEL (B.), NORMAND (P.) and CLEYET-MAREL (J.C.): Sinorhizobium medicae sp. nov., isolated from annual Medicago spp. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1996, 46, 972-980. |
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