Paraburkholderia youngii sp. nov. and ‘Paraburkholderia atlantica’ – Brazilian and Mexican Mimosa-Associated Rhizobia That Were Previously Known as Paraburkholderia tuberum sv. mimosae

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-28-2020

Publication Title

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volume

44

Issue

1

First page number:

1

Last page number:

12

Abstract

© 2020 Elsevier GmbH Previous studies have recognized South and Central/Latin American mimosoid legumes in the genera Mimosa, Piptadenia and Calliandra as hosts for various nodulating Paraburkholderia species. Several of these species have been validly named in the last two decades, e.g., P. nodosa, P. phymatum, P. diazotrophica, P. piptadeniae, P. ribeironis, P. sabiae and P. mimosarum. There are still, however, a number of diverse Paraburkholderia strains associated with these legumes that have an unclear taxonomic status. In this study, we focus on 30 of these strains which originate from the root nodules of Brazilian and Mexican Mimosa species. They were initially identified as P. tuberum and subsequently placed into a symbiovar (sv. mimosae) based on their host preferences. A polyphasic approach for the delineation of these strains was used, consisting of genealogical concordance analysis (using atpD, gyrB, acnA, pab and 16S rRNA gene sequences), together with comparisons of Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI), DNA G + C content ratios and phenotypic characteristics with those of the type strains of validly named Paraburkholderia species. Accordingly, these 30 strains were delineated into two distinct groups, of which one is conspecific with ‘P. atlantica’ CNPSo 3155T and the other new to Science. We propose the name Paraburkholderia youngii sp. nov. with type strain JPY169T (= LMG 31411T; SARCC751T) for this novel species.

Keywords

Average nucleotide identity; Burkholderia legume; Central America; Genealogical concordance; Rhizobia; South America

Disciplines

Microbiology

Language

English

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