Name: Agrobacterium pusense (Panday et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Rhizobium pusense Panday et al. 2011

Etymology: pus.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. pusense, of or belonging to Pusa, India, the geographical origin of the type strain

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 22668; HAMBI 3458; JCM 16209; LMG 25623; NCIMB 14639; NRCPB10

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ969841 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:84-90.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 172. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4299-4305.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Rhizobium pusense Panday et al. 2011	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.18457 (N = 13).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Agrobacterium Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Mousavi SA, Willems A, Nesme X, de Lajudie P, Lindstrom K. Revised phylogeny of Rhizobiaceae: proposal of the delineation of Pararhizobium gen. nov., and 13 new species combinations. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:84-90.

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