Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.828

Name

Azospirillum irakense Khammas et al. 1991

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Azospirillum Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Falk et al. 1985

Type Strain

representative organism

KBC1^T (=CIP 103311 =DSM 11586 =ATCC 51182)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Azospirillaceae Hördt et al. 2020
genus Azospirillum Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Falk et al. 1985
species Azospirillum irakense Khammas et al. 1991

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Azospirillum irakense Khammas et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.828.

Source File

10.1601/tx.828.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 23, 2020.

References

Khammas KM, Ageron E, Grimont PAD, Kaiser P. Azospirillum irakense sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium associated with rice roots and rhizosphere soil. Res Microbiol 1989; 140:679-693. https://doi.org/10.1016/0923-2508(89)90199-X [PubMed].