Herbaspirillum seropedicae
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Herbaspirillum seropedicae is a bacterium of the Betaproteobacteria class, which can form a symbiosis with maize ( Zea mays ), rice ( Oryza sativa ), black millet ( Sorghum bicolor ), sugar cane ( Saccharum officinarum ), bananas ( Musa ) and pineapples ( Ananas comosus ) by fixing the nitrogen. H. seropedicae is a potential nitrogen bio-fertilizer as it alsoproduces phytohormones which can potentially stimulate the growth of the plant. Studies have shown that riceinoculatedwith H. seropedicae can increase the yield to the equivalent of 40 kg N / ha.
features
Like all species of the genus Herbaspirillum , Herbaspirillum seropedicae is gram-negative and vibrioid to spirilla-shaped. The diameter is 0.6 to 0.7 µm, the length 1.5 to 5 µm. The species can be identified within the genus because it can metabolize N -acetyl- D -glucosamine , meso - inositol , L - rhamnose and arabinose , but not meso - erythritol .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://aem.asm.org/content/77/6/2180.full.pdf
- ↑ Martin M. Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt (Eds.): The Prokaryotes: A Handbook on the Biology of Bacteria: Vol. 5: Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta Subclass . 3. Edition. Springer, 2006, ISBN 0-387-25499-4 , pp. 147 .