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ArticleScientific reports2016

Novel European free-living, non-diazotrophic Bradyrhizobium isolates from contrasting soils that lack nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes - a genome comparison.

Frances Patricia Jones, Ian M Clark, Robert King, Liz J Shaw, Martin J Woodward, Penny R Hirsch

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Frances Patricia JonesDepartment of AgroEcology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK.
Ian M ClarkDepartment of AgroEcology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK.
Robert KingDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK.
Liz J ShawDepartment of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK.
Martin J WoodwardDepartment of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK.
Penny R HirschDepartment of AgroEcology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK.
Rothamsted Research · GBUniversity of Reading · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/C/00005196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The slow-growing genus Bradyrhizobium is biologically important in soils, with different representatives found to perform a range of biochemical functions including photosynthesis, induction of root nodules and symbiotic nitrogen fixation and denitrification. Consequently, the role of the genus in soil ecology and biogeochemical transformations is of agricultural and environmental significance. Some isolates of Bradyrhizobium have been shown to be non-symbiotic and do not possess the ability to form nodules. Here we present the genome and gene annotations of two such free-living Bradyrhizobium isolates, named G22 and BF49, from soils with differing long-term management regimes (grassland and bare fallow respectively) in addition to carbon metabolism analysis. These Bradyrhizobium isolates are the first to be isolated and sequenced from European soil and are the first free-living Bradyrhizobium isolates, lacking both nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes, to have their genomes sequenced and assembled from cultured samples. The G22 and BF49 genomes are distinctly different with respect to size and number of genes; the grassland isolate also contains a plasmid. There are also a number of functional differences between these isolates and other published genomes, suggesting that this ubiquitous genus is extremely heterogeneous and has roles within the community not including symbiotic nitrogen fixation.

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Genome, BacterialBradyrhizobiumEuropeGenome SizeMolecular Sequence AnnotationNitrogen FixationPhylogenyPlant Root NodulationRoot Nodules, PlantSequence Analysis, DNASoil Microbiology

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