%0 Journal Article %A Wang, En Tao %A Tan, Zhi Yuan %A Willems, Anne %A Fernández-López, Manuel %A Reinhold-Hurek, Barbara %A Martínez-Romero, Esperanza %T Sinorhizobium morelense sp. nov., a Leucaena leucocephala-associated bacterium that is highly resistant to multiple antibiotics. %D 2002 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 52 %N 5 %P 1687-1693 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-5-1687 %I Microbiology Society, %X 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. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-52-5-1687