Species ***Rhizobium* *wuzhouense***

Name: Rhizobium wuzhouense Yuan et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: wu.zhou.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. wuzhouense, pertaining to Wuzhou, a city in China, where the type strain was isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: r^hi-ZO-bi-um wu-z͡hou-EN-se, neuter

Type strain: CCTCC AB 2017179; GDMCC 1.1257; KCTC 62194; W44

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MF066952 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yuan T, Liu L, Huang S, Taher AH, Tan Z, Wu G, Peng G. Rhizobium wuzhouense sp. nov., isolated from roots of Oryza officinalis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2918-2923. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3685-3687.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Peteryoungia wuzhouensis (Yuan et al. 2018) Rahi et al. 2025	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.04312 (N = 10).
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of other species in the genus.
- 🧍 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: Rhizobium Frank 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Yuan T, Liu L, Huang S, Taher AH, Tan Z, Wu G, Peng G. Rhizobium wuzhouense sp. nov., isolated from roots of Oryza officinalis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2918-2923. 🇨🇳

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Species Rhizobium wuzhouense

Species ***Rhizobium* *wuzhouense***