Bradyrhizobium sp. strain WSM1743 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that can exist as a soil saprophyte or as a legume microsymbiont of an Indigofera sp. WSM1743 was isolated from a nodule recovered from the roots of an Indigofera sp. growing 20 km north of Carnarvon in Australia. It is slow growing, tolerates up to 1 % NaCl and is capable of growth at 37 °C. Here we d...

Shiio, Tsuru (Washington State University, Pullman), and Bruce A. McFadden. Cell-free amino acid-incorporating system from Pseudomonas indigofera. J. Bacteriol. 90:978-983. 1965.-A cell-free preparation from Pseudomonas indigofera incorporated C(14)-phenylalanine and C(14)-leucine into a product which was insoluble in hot trichloroacetic acid. The phenylalanine incorporation process, which had ...

Two new species of Indigofera L. (Leguminosae) are described from the Sneeuberg Centre of Floristic Endemism on the southern Great Escarpment, Eastern and Western Cape Provinces, South Africa. Both species are localised high-altitude endemics. Indigoferamagnifica Schrire & V.R. Clark is confined to the summit plateau of the Toorberg-Koudeveldberg-Meelberg west of Graaff-Reinet, and complements ...

An investigation has been made about the vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization in some medicinal plants Catharanthus roseus, C. pusillus, Wrightia tinctoria, Thevetia peruviana, Nerium indicum and Alstonia scholaris belongs to family Apocyanaceae were screened for the occurrence and association of VA mycorrhizal fungi. All the plants screened in the study harbored VA mycorrhizal f...