RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Torres Tejerizo, Gonzalo A1 Rogel, Marco Antonio A1 Ormeño-Orrillo, Ernesto A1 Althabegoiti, María Julia A1 Nilsson, Juliet Fernanda A1 Niehaus, Karsten A1 Schlüter, Andreas A1 Pühler, Alfred A1 Del Papa, María Florencia A1 Lagares, Antonio A1 Martínez-Romero, Esperanza A1 Pistorio, MarianoYR 2016 T1 Rhizobium favelukesii sp. nov., isolated from the root nodules of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L) JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 66 IS 11 SP 4451 OP 4457 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001373 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Strains LPU83T and Or191 of the genus Rhizobium were isolated from the root nodules of alfalfa, grown in acid soils from Argentina and the USA. These two strains, which shared the same plasmid pattern, lipopolysaccharide profile, insertion-sequence fingerprint, 16S rRNA gene sequence and PCR-fingerprinting pattern, were different from reference strains representing species of the genus Rhizobium with validly published names. On the basis of previously reported data and from new DNA-DNA hybridization results, phenotypic characterization and phylogenetic analyses, strains LPU83T and Or191 can be considered to be representatives of a novel species of the genus Rhizobium , for which the name Rhizobium favelukesii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of this species is LPU83T (=CECT 9014T=LMG 29160T), for which an improved draft-genome sequence is available., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001373