%0 Journal Article %A Tian, Chang Fu %A Wang, En Tao %A Wu, Li Juan %A Han, Tian Xu %A Chen, Wen Feng %A Gu, Chun Tao %A Gu, Jin Gang %A Chen, Wen Xin %T Rhizobium fabae sp. nov., a bacterium that nodulates Vicia faba %D 2008 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 58 %N 12 %P 2871-2875 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000703-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Six strains were isolated from root nodules of Vicia faba grown in Nanchang, Yifeng, Taihu, Huaibei, Bengbu and Lujiang, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. According to phylogenetic analyses of 16S rRNA gene, atpD and recA sequences, these strains belong to the genus Rhizobium, with Rhizobium etli and Rhizobium leguminosarum as the closest related species. CCBAU 33202T, a representative of these novel isolates, showed sequence similarity to its closest relatives R. etli CFN 42T and R. leguminosarum USDA 2370T of 99.5 and 99.1 % for the 16S rRNA gene, 91.9 and 91.9 % for atpD and 90.3 and 93.2 % for recA. The strains from this study could also be differentiated from R. etli CFN 42T and R. leguminosarum USDA 2370T by 16S–IGS RFLP and SDS-PAGE of whole-cell proteins, fatty acid profiles and several phenotypic characteristics. DNA–DNA hybridization yielded relatedness of 19 and 14–43 %, respectively, with R. etli CFN 42T and strains representing different biovars of R. leguminosarum. All data obtained in this study showed that these V. faba isolates belong to a novel species, for which the name Rhizobium fabae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain, CCBAU 33202T (=LMG 23997T =JCM 14381T), was isolated from Nanchang. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000703-0