Bradyrhizobium cajani sp. nov. isolated from nodules of Cajanus cajan Araújo, Juan and Flores-Félix, José David and Igual, José M. and Peix, Alvaro and González-Andrés, Fernando and Díaz-Alcántara, César Antonio and Velázquez, Encarna,, 67, 2236-2241 (2017), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001932, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Two slow-growing strains, AMBPC1010T and AMBPC1011, were isolated from nodules of Cajanus cajan in the Dominican Republic. 16S rRNA gene analysis placed these strains within the genus Bradyrhizobium , being phylogenetically equidistant to several species of this genus. Analysis of the recA and atpD genes showed that the strains isolated belong to a cluster containing the strains Bradyrhizobium ottawaense OO99T, ‘ Bradyrhizobium americanum' CMVU44 and Bradyrhizobium daqingense CCBAU 15774T, and presented similarity values lower than 96 % for both genes with respect to the strains nodulating C. cajan. DNA–DNA hybridization analysis showed averages of 36, 40 and 39 % relatedness with respect to the representative strains of Bradyrhizobium ottawaense , ‘ Bradyrhizobium americanum' and Bradyrhizobium daqingense , respectively. Phenotypic characteristics also differed from those of the most closely related species of the genus Bradyrhizobium . Therefore, based on the data obtained in this study, we propose to classify the strains AMBPC1010T (=LMG 29967T=CECT 9227T) and AMBPC1011 into a novel species named Bradyrhizobium cajani sp. nov., language=, type=