Department of Microbiology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading RG6 ZAJ, UK On the basis of enzyme assays, myo-inositol appears to be catabolized via 2-keto-myo-inositol and ~-2,3-diketo-4-deoxy epi-inositol in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae, as occurs in Klebsiella aerogenes. The first two enzymes of the pathway, myo-inositol dehydrogenase and 2-keto-myo-inositol dehyd...

Rhizobium leguminosarum symbiovar trifolii strains TA1 and CC275e are nitrogen-fixing microsymbionts of Trifolium spp. have been used as commercial inoculant for clovers in pastoral agriculture Australia New Zealand. Here we present the complete genome sequences both strains, resolving their multipartite structures allowing future studies using genomic approaches. [Formula: see text] Copyright ...

As the electrophoretic mobility of a bacterium in a constant environment depends on properties of the surface of the organism, alterations in mobility have been used as a means of detecting changes in the structure of the surface. Changes have been detected in this way during the germination of spores and during the initial stages of growth of the vegetative form (Douglas & Parker, 1958 b), at ...

Several rhizobial strains were isolated from Phaseolus coccineus root nodules and were determined to be Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar phaseoli strains after reinfection of the same host plant. These strains were characterized by cultural procedures (growth on different carbon sources and intrinsic antibiotic resistance) and electrophoretic procedures (sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel ...