Pararhizobium
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| Pararhizobium | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Rhizobiaceae |
| Genus: | Pararhizobium Mousavi et al. 2016[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pararhizobium giardinii (Amarger et al. 1997) Mousavi et al. 2016 | |
| Species[2] | |
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Pararhizobium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria that fix nitrogen. Some species of Pararhizobium form an endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing association with roots of legumes.