Paraburkholderia sprentiae

Paraburkholderia sprentiae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Burkholderiaceae
Genus:	Paraburkholderia
Species:	P. sprentiae
Binomial name
Paraburkholderia sprentiae (De Meyer et al. 2013) Sawana et al. 2015[1]
Type strain
WSM4187^T[2] WSM5005^T HAMBI 3357^T LMG 27175^T Vandamme R-49719^T WSM5005^T
Synonyms
Burkholderia sprentiae De Meyer et al. 2013[3]

Paraburkholderia sprentiae is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Paraburkholderia and the family Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from root nodules from the plant Lebeckia ambigua in South Africa.^[4][5]

The species was named in honor of Professor Janet Sprent of Dundee University, in recognition of her work on nitrogen fixation.^[4]

References

1. Sawana A, Adeolu M, Gupta RS (2014). "Molecular signatures and phylogenomic analysis of the genus Burkholderia: Proposal for division of this genus into the emended genus Burkholderia containing pathogenic organisms and a new genus Paraburkholderia gen. nov. harboring environmental species". Front. Genet. 5: 429. doi:10.3389/fgene.2014.00429. PMC 4271702. PMID 25566316.
2. Straininfo of Burkholderia sprentiae
3. LSPN lpsn.dsmz.de
4. De Meyer, S. E.; Cnockaert, M.; Ardley, J. K.; Maker, G.; Yates, R.; Howieson, J. G.; Vandamme, P. (2013). "Burkholderia sprentiae sp. nov., isolated from Lebeckia ambigua root nodules" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 11): 3950–7. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.048777-0. PMID 23710047.
5. Taxonomy Browser