Rank Species | Order Rhizobiales | |
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Similar Sinorhizobium meliloti, Rhizobium, Bradyrhizobium, Sinorhizobium, Bradyrhizobium japonicum | ||
Medical vocabulary what does rhizobium leguminosarum mean
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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Pemanfaatan bakteri rhizobium leguminosarum sebagai biofertilizer
Morphology
Rhizobium leguminosarum is a Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped, aerobic bacterium.
Common biovars
R. leguminosarum biovar trifolii, and R. leguminosarum biovar viciae are the most commonly studied biovars of R. leguminosarum, with certain studies seemingly treating R. trifolii as its own species.
Uses
Research has been carried out into the role that R. leguminosarum could play in promoting growth of canola and lettuce.
References
Rhizobium leguminosarum Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA