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The introduction of legumes and nitrogen-fixing bacteria in tropical areas under pasture is a key factor for improvement of soil fertility. However, there are still very few studies concerning the symbionts of tropical forage legumes. We performed a polyphasic study with three strains representing the genus (BR 446, BR 510 and BR 511) isolated from the tropical perennial forage legume of the genus . On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequences, the three strains showed highest similarity with , and in the analysis of the intergenic transcribed spacer (ITS) they showed less than 93.4 % similarity to all described species of the genus . Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) with three, four or five (, and ) housekeeping genes confirmed that the BR strains belong to a distinct clade, with <96.5 % nucleotide identity with other members of the genus Average nucleotide identity (ANI) of genome sequences between strain BR 446and was below the threshold for species circumscription (90.7 %). DNA-DNA hybridization resulted in Δ values over 6.7 °C with the most closely related species. Similarities among the BR strains and differences from other species were confirmed by rep-PCR analysis. Interestingly, the BR strains were grouped in the analysis of and genes, but showed higher similarity with and than with , indicating a different evolutionary history for nitrogen-fixation genes. Morpho-physiological, genotypic and genomic data supported that these BR strains represent a novel species for which the name sp. nov. is suggested. The type strain is BR 446(=CNPSo 2823=HAMBI 3668=H-8), isolated from .

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