Name: Allorhizobium vitis (Ophel and Kerr 1990) Mousavi et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Agrobacterium vitis Ophel and Kerr 1990

Etymology: vi’tis. L. fem. n. Vitis, wine plant; L. gen. fem. n. vitis, of the wine plant

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 49767; CECT 4799; CIP 105853; HAMBI 1817; ICMP 10752; IFO 15140; JCM 21033; K309; LMG 8750; NBRC 15140; NCPPB 3554

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D14502 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
    Agrobacterium vitis Ophel and Kerr 1990	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Rhizobium vitis (Ophel and Kerr 1990) Young et al. 2001	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Allorhizobium vitis" Brenner et al. 2005	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
  • Kuzmanović et al. 2022 Kuzmanovic N, Biondi E, Overmann J, Pulawska J, Verbarg S, Smalla K, Lassalle F. Genomic analysis provides novel insights into diversification and taxonomy of Allorhizobium vitis (i.e. Agrobacterium vitis). BMC Genomics 2022; 23:462. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 37. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5696.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "plant pathogen - biological class of risk plant: 2". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "p".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 23 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Allorhizobium de Lajudie et al. 1998

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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