RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Chen, Wei-Min A1 Zhu, Wen-Fei A1 Bontemps, Cyril A1 Young, J. Peter W. A1 Wei, Ge HongYR 2010 T1 Mesorhizobium alhagi sp. nov., isolated from wild Alhagi sparsifolia in north-western China JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 60 IS 4 SP 958 OP 962 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.014043-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Eleven strains that formed symbiotic root nodules on Alhagi sparsifolia, designated previously as genospecies II, were identified as a new lineage of Mesorhizobium (Alphaproteobacteria) that could be differentiated from all previously recognized species of the genus Mesorhizobium by using 16S rRNA gene sequences (<97.8 % similarity), DNA–DNA hybridization (<45 %), dnaJ, dnaK, recA, glnA, nifH, nodA and nodC gene sequences, fatty acid profiles (C18 : 1 ω7c, 35 %;11-methyl C18 : 1 ω7c, 30 %) and numerical taxonomy. These strains are therefore considered to represent a novel species, for which the name Mesorhizobium alhagi sp. nov. is proposed, with isolate CCNWXJ12-2T (=ACCC 15461T=HAMBI 3019T) as the type strain., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.014043-0