Name: Phyllobacterium leguminum Mantelin et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: le.gu’min.um. L. gen. neut. pl. n. leguminum, of legumes, referring to its isolation from root nodules of legumes

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CFBP 6745; LMG 22833; ORS 1419

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16S rRNA gene: AJ968695 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Mantelin S, Saux MF, Zakhia F, Bena G, Bonneau S, Jeder H, de Lajudie P, Cleyet-Marel JC. Emended description of the genus Phyllobacterium and description of four novel species associated with plant roots: Phyllobacterium bourgognense sp. nov., Phyllobacterium ifriqiyense sp. nov., Phyllobacterium leguminum sp. nov. and Phyllobacterium brassicacearum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:827-839.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1461-1462.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03634 (N = 13).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Phyllobacterium (ex Knösel 1962) Knösel 1984

Assigned by: Mantelin S, Saux MF, Zakhia F, Bena G, Bonneau S, Jeder H, de Lajudie P, Cleyet-Marel JC. Emended description of the genus Phyllobacterium and description of four novel species associated with plant roots: Phyllobacterium bourgognense sp. nov., Phyllobacterium ifriqiyense sp. nov., Phyllobacterium leguminum sp. nov. and Phyllobacterium brassicacearum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:827-839.

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Record number: 784633