Rhizobium acidisoli sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of Phaseolus vulgaris in acid soils Román-Ponce, Brenda and Jing Zhang, Yu and Soledad Vásquez-Murrieta, María and Hua Sui, Xin and Feng Chen, Wen and Carlos Alberto Padilla, Juan and Wu Guo, Xian and Lian Gao, Jun and Yan, Jun and Hong Wei, Ge and Tao Wang, En,, 66, 398-406 (2016), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000732, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Two Gram-negative, aerobic, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterial strains, FH13T and FH23, representing a novel group of Rhizobium isolated from root nodules of Phaseolus vulgaris in Mexico, were studied by a polyphasic analysis. Phylogeny of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed them to be members of the genus Rhizobium related most closely to ‘Rhizobium anhuiense’ CCBAU 23252 (99.7 % similarity), Rhizobium leguminosarum USDA 2370T (98.6 %), and Rhizobium sophorae CCBAU 03386T and others ( ≤ 98.3 %). In sequence analyses of the housekeeping genes recA, glnII and atpD, both strains formed a subclade distinct from all defined species of the genus Rhizobium at sequence similarities of 82.3–94.0 %, demonstrating that they represented a novel genomic species in the genus Rhizobium. Mean levels of DNA–DNA relatedness between the reference strain FH13T and the type strains of related species varied between 13.0 ± 2.0 and 52.1 ± 1.2 %. The DNA G+C content of strain FH13T was 63.5 mol% (T m). The major cellular fatty acids were 16 : 0, 17 : 0 anteiso, 18 : 0, summed feature 2 (12 : 0 aldehyde/unknown 10.928) and summed feature 8 (18 : 1ω7c). The fatty acid 17 : 1ω5c was unique for this strain. Some phenotypic features, such as failure to utilize adonitol, l-arabinose, d-fructose and d-fucose, and ability to utilize d-galacturonic acid and itaconic acid as carbon source, could also be used to distinguish strain FH13T from the type strains of related species. Based upon these results, a novel species, Rhizobium acidisoli sp. nov., is proposed, with FH13T ( = CCBAU 101094T = HAMBI 3626T = LMG 28672T) as the type strain., language=, type=