Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1328

Name

Ensifer Casida 1982 emend. Kuzmanović et al. 2022

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	Ensifer adhaerens Casida 1982 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Ensifer alkalisoli Li et al. 2016
species	Ensifer americanum (sic) (Toledo et al. 2004) Wang et al. 2015 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Ensifer arboris (Nick et al. 1999) Young 2003 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Ensifer fredii Young 2003 emend. Hördt et al. 2020 pro synon. Sinorhizobium fredii (Scholla and Elkan 1984) Chen et al. 1988 emend. De Lajudie et al. 1994
species	Ensifer garamanticus Merabet et al. 2010
species	Ensifer glycinis Yan et al. 2016
species	Ensifer kostiensis (Nick et al. 1999) Young 2003
species	Ensifer kummerowiae (Wei et al. 2002) Young 2003
species	Ensifer medicae (Rome et al. 1996) Young 2003
species	Ensifer meliloti (Dangeard 1926) Young 2003
species	Ensifer mexicanus Lloret et al. 2011
species	Ensifer morelense (sic) (Wang et al. 2002) Wang et al. 2015
species	Ensifer numidicus Merabet et al. 2010
species	Ensifer psoraleae Wang et al. 2015
species	Ensifer saheli (De Lajudie et al. 1994) Young 2003 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Ensifer sesbaniae Wang et al. 2015
species	Ensifer shofinae Chen et al. 2017 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Ensifer sojae Li et al. 2011 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Ensifer terangae (De Lajudie et al. 1994) Young 2003
species	Ensifer xinjiangensis (Chen et al. 1988) Young 2003

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 Ensifer Casida 1982 emend. Kuzmanović et al. 2022

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 Ensifer Casida 1982 emend. Kuzmanović et al. 2022. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1328.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1328.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2022.

References

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Chen WH, Yang SH, Li ZH, Zhang XX, Sui XH, Wang ET, Chen WX, Chen WF. Ensifer shofinae sp. nov., a novel rhizobial species isolated from root nodules of soybean (Glycine max). Syst Appl Microbiol 2017; 40:144-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2017.01.002 [PubMed].
Yan H, Yan J, Sui XH, Wang ET, Chen WX, Zhang XX, Chen WF. Ensifer glycinis sp. nov., an novel rhizobial species associated with Glycine spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2910-2916. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001120 [PubMed].
Young JM. The genus name Ensifer Casida 1982 takes priority over Sinorhizobium Chen et al. 1988, and Sinorhizobium morelense Wang et al. 2002 is a later synonym of Ensifer adhaerens Casida 1982. Is the combination Sinorhizobium adhaerens (Casida 1982) Willems et al. 2003 legitimate? Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:2107-2110. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02665-0 [PubMed].
Li Y, Yan J, Yu B, Wang ET, Li X, Yan H, Liu W, Xe Z. Ensifer alkalisoli sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of Sesbania cannabina grown in saline-alkaline soils. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5294-5300. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001510 [PubMed].
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Wang YC, Wang F, Hou BC, Wang ET, Chen WF, Sui XH, Chen WX, Li Y, Zhang YB. Proposal of Ensifer psoraleae sp. nov., Ensifer sesbaniae sp. nov., Ensifer morelense comb. nov. and Ensifer americanum comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:467-473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2013.05.001 [PubMed].