Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1310

Name

Agrobacterium Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sawada et al. 1993

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Rhizobiaceae Conn 1938 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend 1907) Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Agrobacterium albertimagni Salmassi et al. 2002
species	Agrobacterium arsenijevicii Kuzmanović et al. 2019
species	Agrobacterium atlanticum Rüger and Höfle 1992
species	Agrobacterium burrii Mafakheri et al. 2022
species	Agrobacterium cavarae Flores-Félix et al. 2020
species	Agrobacterium deltaense Yan et al. 2017
species	Agrobacterium fabacearum Delamuta et al. 2020
species	Agrobacterium ferrugineum (ex Ahrens and Rheinheimer 1967) Rüger and Höfle 1992
species	Agrobacterium gelatinovorum (ex Ahrens 1968) Rüger and Höfle 1992
species	Agrobacterium larrymoorei Bouzar and Jones 2001 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Agrobacterium leguminum Castellano-Hinojosa et al. 2021
species	Agrobacterium meteori Rüger and Höfle 1992
species	Agrobacterium nepotum (Puławska et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2016 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Agrobacterium pusense (Panday et al. 2011) Mousavi et al. 2016
species	Agrobacterium radiobacter (Beijerinck and van Delden 1902) Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Agrobacterium rhizogenes (Riker et al. 1930) Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sawada et al. 1993
species	Agrobacterium rosae Kuzmanović et al. 2019
species	Agrobacterium rubi (Hildebrand 1940) Starr and Weiss 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Agrobacterium salinitolerans Yan et al. 2017
species	Agrobacterium shirazense Mafakheri et al. 2022
species	Agrobacterium skierniewicense (Puławska et al. 2012) Mousavi et al. 2016
species	Agrobacterium stellulatum (ex Stapp and Knösel 1954) Rüger and Höfle 1992
species	Agrobacterium tomkonis Singh et al. 2022
species	Agrobacterium vaccinii Puławska et al. 2022
species	Agrobacterium vitis Ophel and Kerr 1990
species	Agrobacterium sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Rhizobiaceae Conn 1938 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Agrobacterium Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sawada et al. 1993

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Agrobacterium Conn 1942 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sawada et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1310.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1310.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 11, 2022.

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