@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-52-5-1687, author = "Wang, En Tao and Tan, Zhi Yuan and Willems, Anne and Fernández-López, Manuel and Reinhold-Hurek, Barbara and Martínez-Romero, Esperanza", title = "Sinorhizobium morelense sp. nov., a Leucaena leucocephala-associated bacterium that is highly resistant to multiple antibiotics.", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2002", volume = "52", number = "5", pages = "1687-1693", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-5-1687", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-52-5-1687", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Sinorhizobium morelense sp. nov. is described to designate a group of bacteria isolated from root nodules of Leucaena leucocephala. S. morelense shows 98% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to some Sinorhizobium species and to Ensifer adhaerens. This novel species is distinguished from other Sinorhizobium species and from E. adhaerens by DNA-DNA hybridization, 165 rRNA gene restriction fragments and sequence and some distinctive phenotypic features. Strains of this species are highly resistant to some antibiotics, such as carbenicillin (1 mg ml(-1)), kanamycin (500 microg ml(-1)) and erythromycin (300 microg ml(-1)). They do not form nodules, but a nodulating strain, Lc57, is closely related to the novel species. Strain Lc04T (= LMG 21331T = CFN E1007T) is designated as the type strain of this novel species.", }