RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Ren, Da Wei A1 Wang, En Tao A1 Chen, Wen Feng A1 Sui, Xin Hua A1 Zhang, Xiao Xia A1 Liu, Hong Can A1 Chen, Wen XinYR 2011 T1 Rhizobium herbae sp. nov. and Rhizobium giardinii-related bacteria, minor microsymbionts of various wild legumes in China JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 61 IS 8 SP 1912 OP 1920 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.024943-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Seven Rhizobium strains associated with various legume species grown in different geographical regions of China were defined into four genomic groups related to Rhizobium giardinii, based upon ribosomal intergenic spacer RFLP, phylogenies of 16S rRNA and housekeeping (atpD, recA and glnII) genes, and DNA relatedness. Three strains in group I were classified as R. giardinii, as they showed high gene sequence similarities (>97 %) and DNA relatedness (64.3–67.5 %) to R. giardinii H152T. Groups II, III and IV differed from all defined Rhizobium species based upon the consensus of all analyses. As group II contained two strains that originated from two distinct populations, we propose this group as a novel species, Rhizobium herbae sp. nov., with strain CCBAU 83011T ( = LMG 25718T = HAMBI 3117T) as the type strain., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.024943-0