| Beijerinckia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Beijerinckiaceae |
| Genus: | Beijerinckia Derx 1950[1] |
| Type species | |
| Beijerinckia indica[1] | |
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Beijerinckia is a genus of bacteria from the family of Beijerinckiaceae.[1][2]
Beijerinckia is a free living nitrogen-fixing aerobic microbe. It has abundant of nitrogenase enzyme capable of nitrogen reduction.Beijerinckia are characterized as nonsymbiotic (i.e., free-living), aerobic, chemoheterorophic bacteria with the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. They can be distinguished from other nitrogen-fixing bacteria by cell morphology and some physiological characteristics.
Beijerinckia is named after M.W. Beijerinck, the Dutch microbiologist (1851–1931).[3]
- ^ a b c LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
- ^ UniProt
- ^ Whitman, William B; Rainey, Fred; Kämpfer, Peter; Trujillo, Martha; Chun, Jonsik; DeVos, Paul; Hedlund, Brian; Dedysh, Svetlana, eds. (2015-04-17). Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (1 ed.). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00795. ISBN 978-1-118-96060-8.