Azoarcus

Azoarcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Rhodocyclales
Family: Zoogloeaceae[1]
Genus: Azoarcus
Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993
Species: Azoarcus anaerobius
Azoarcus buckelii
Azoarcus communis
Azoarcus evansii
Azoarcus indigens
Azoarcus olearius
Azoarcus toluclasticus
Azoarcus tolulyticus
Azoarcus toluvorans
Type species
Azoarcus indigens

Azoarcus is a genus of nitrogen-fixing bacteria.[2] Species in this genus are usually found in contaminated water, as they are involved in the degradation of some contaminants, commonly habitating in soil. These bacteria have also been found growing in the endophytic compartment (inside the plant between the living cells) of some rice species and other grasses.[3] The genus is within the family Zoogloeaceae in the Rhodocyclales of the Betaproteobacteria.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Boden, R; Hutt, LP, Rae AW (2017). "Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67 (5): 1191–1205. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001927. PMID 28581923.
  2. ↑ Reinhold-Hurek, B.; Hurek, T.; Gillis, M.; Hoste, B.; Vancanneyt, M.; Kersters, K.; De Ley, J. (1993). "Azoarcus gen. nov., Nitrogen-Fixing Proteobacteria Associated with Roots of Kallar Grass (Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth), and Description of Two Species, Azoarcus indigens sp. nov. and Azoarcus communis sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 43 (3): 574–584. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-3-574. ISSN 0020-7713.
  3. ↑ Raven Biology of Plants 8th Edition. Freeman

Further reading

  • Hurek T, Reinhold-Hurek B (June 1995). "Identification of grass-associated and toluene-degrading diazotrophs, Azoarcus spp., by analyses of partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61 (6): 2257–61. PMC 167497. PMID 7793946. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
  • Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer, 2012.
  • Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-25495-1.
  • Malik, Kauser A.; Ladha, J. K.; Bruijn, F. J. de (1997). Opportunities for biological nitrogen fixation in rice and other non-legumes: papers presented at the second working group meeting of the frontier project on nitrogen fixation in rice held at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7923-4514-5.


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