Name: Herbaspirillum hiltneri Rothballer et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hilt’ner.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. hiltneri, of Hiltner, in honour of Professor Lorenz Hiltner, who coined the rhizosphere concept in 1904

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 17495; LMG 23131; N3

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ150563 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rothballer M, Schmid M, Klein I, Gattinger A, Grundmann S, Hartmann A. Herbaspirillum hiltneri sp. nov., isolated from surface-sterilized wheat roots. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1341-1348.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2029-2030.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03693 (N = 13).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Herbaspirillum Baldani et al. 1986

Assigned by: Rothballer M, Schmid M, Klein I, Gattinger A, Grundmann S, Hartmann A. Herbaspirillum hiltneri sp. nov., isolated from surface-sterilized wheat roots. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1341-1348.

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Record number: 776887