Guidelines for the description of rhizobial symbiovars
: Martinez-Romero Esperanza, Peix Alvaro, Hungria Mariangela, Mousavi Seyed Abdollah, Martinez-Romero Julio, Young Peter
Publisher: Society for General Microbiology
: 2024
: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
: Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
: 006373
: 74
: 5
: 1466-5026
: 1466-5034
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006373
: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.006373
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/404705763
Rhizobia are bacteria that form nitrogen-fixing nodules in legume plants. The sets of genes responsible for both nodulation and nitrogen fixation are carried in plasmids or genomic islands that are often mobile. Different strains within a species sometimes have different host specificities, while very similar symbiosis genes may be found in strains of different species. These specificity variants are known as symbiovars, and many of them have been given names, but there are no established guidelines for defining or naming them. Here, we discuss the requirements for guidelines to describe symbiovars, propose a set of guidelines, provide a list of all symbiovars for which descriptions have been published so far, and offer a mechanism to maintain a list in the future.
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