Name: Ensifer sojae Li et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: so’ja.e. N.L. gen. fem. n. sojae, of soja, of soybean, referring to the source of the first isolates

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCBAU 5684; HAMBI 3098; LMG 25493

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16S rRNA gene: GU593061 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Li QQ, Wang ET, Chang YL, Zhang YZ, Zhang YM, Sui XH, Chen WF, Chen WX. Ensifer sojae sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of Glycine max grown in saline-alkaline soils. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1981-1988.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2566-2567.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sinorhizobium sojae (Li et al. 2011) Kuzmanović et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Ensifer Casida 1982

Assigned by: Li QQ, Wang ET, Chang YL, Zhang YZ, Zhang YM, Sui XH, Chen WF, Chen WX. Ensifer sojae sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of Glycine max grown in saline-alkaline soils. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1981-1988.

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