Paraburkholderia phymatum
Species of bacterium
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Paraburkholderia phymatum is a species of bacteria that is capable of symbiotic nitrogen fixation with the legumes Machaerium lunatum and Mimosa pudica.[3] Recently, the genome (8.67 Mbp long) was sequenced. It consists of two chromosomes (3.49 and 2.7 Mbp), a megaplasmid (1.9 Mbp), and a plasmid hosting the symbiotic functions (0.56 Mbp).[4]
| Paraburkholderia phymatum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Burkholderiales |
| Family: | Burkholderiaceae |
| Genus: | Paraburkholderia |
| Species: | P. phymatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Paraburkholderia phymatum (Vandamme et al. 2003) Sawana et al. 2015[1] | |
| Type strain[2] | |
| CCUG 47179; DSM 17167; LMG 21445; STM 815 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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