A taxonomic study of the Spirillum lipoferum group, with descriptions of a new genus, Azospirillum gen. nov., and two species, Azospirillum lipoferum (Beijerinck) comb. nov. and Azospirillum brasilense sp. nov.
Sixty-one strains of the root-associated nitrogen fixer <u>Spirillum lipoferum</u> exhibited a similar morphology (slightly-curved to S-shaped cells having a cell diameter of 1.0 μm) and had a DNA base composition of 69 - 71 mol% G + C (Tm). When grown in broth the cells had a single pol...
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54873 |