| Ensifer medicae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Rhizobiaceae |
| Genus: | Ensifer |
| Species: | E. medicae
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| Binomial name | |
| Ensifer medicae Rome et al. 1996
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Ensifer medicae (also known as Sinorhizobium medicae) is a species of gram-negative, nitrogen-fixing, rod-shaped bacteria. They can be free-living or symbionts of leguminous plants in root nodules. E.medicae was first isolated from root nodules on plants in the genus Medicago.[1] Some strains of E.medicae, like WSM419, are aerobic. They are chemoorganotrophic mesophiles that prefer temperatures around 28 °C. In addition to their primary genome, these organisms also have three known plasmids, sized 1,570,951 bp, 1,245,408 bp and 219,313 bp.[2]
Colonies of Ensifer medicae are mucoid and ring-shaped and can be viewed here.
- ^ Chen, WX; Yan, GH; Li, JL (1988). "Numerical taxonomic study of fast-growing soybean rhizobia and a proposal that Rhizobium fredii be assigned to Sinorhizobium gen. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 38 (4): 392–397. doi:10.1099/00207713-38-4-392.
- ^ Reeve, W; Chain, P; O'Hara, G; Ardley, J; Nandesena, K; Bräu, L; Tiwari, R; Malfatti, S; Kiss, H; Lapidus, A; Copeland, A; Nolan, M; Land, M; Hauser, L; Chang, YJ; Ivanova, N; Mavromatis, K; Markowitz, V; Kyrpides, N; Gollagher, M; Yates, R; Dilworth, M; Howieson, J (2010). "Complete genome sequence of the Medicago microsymbiont Ensifer(Sinorhizobium) medicae strain WSM419". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2 (1): 77–86. doi:10.4056/sigs.43526. PMC 3035259. PMID 21304680.