Azoarcus indigens

Azoarcus indigens is a species of bacteria. It is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with roots of Leptochloa fusca . Its cells are yellow-pigmented, straight to curved, gram-negative rods. Its type strain is VB32 (= LMG 9092).[1]

Azoarcus indigens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Betaproteobacteria
Order:
Rhodocyclales
Family:
Rhodocyclaceae
Genus:
Azoarcus
Species:
Azoarcus indigens

Reinhold-Hurek et al., 1993

References
  1. Reinhold-Hurek, B.; Hurek, T.; Gillis, M.; Hoste, B.; Vancanneyt, M.; Kersters, K.; De Ley, J. (1993). "Azoarcus gen. nov., Nitrogen-Fixing Proteobacteria Associated with Roots of Kallar Grass (Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth), and Description of Two Species, Azoarcus indigens sp. nov. and Azoarcus communis sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 43 (3): 574–584. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-3-574. ISSN 0020-7713.

Further reading
  • Hurek T, Reinhold-Hurek B (June 1995). "Identification of grass-associated and toluene-degrading diazotrophs, Azoarcus spp., by analyses of partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61 (6): 2257–61. PMC 167497. PMID 7793946. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
  • Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer, 2012.
  • Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25495-1.
  • Malik, Kauser A.; Ladha, J. K.; Bruijn, F. J. de (1997). Opportunities for biological nitrogen fixation in rice and other non-legumes: papers presented at the second working group meeting of the frontier project on nitrogen fixation in rice held at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-4514-2.
  • Ma, Yun; Chen, Liansheng; Qiu, Jiguo (2013). "Biodegradation of beta-cypermethrin by a novelAzoarcus indigensstrain HZ5". Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B. 48 (10): 851–859. doi:10.1080/03601234.2013.795843. ISSN 0360-1234.


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