Name: Phyllobacterium sophorae Jiao et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: so.pho’rae. N.L. gen. fem. n. sophorae, of the herb Sophora flavescens, where the bacterium was isolated from its root nodules

Gender: neuter

Type strain: A-6-3; CCBAU 3422; HAMBI 3508; LMG 27899

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ685937 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Jiao YS, Yan H, Ji ZJ, Liu YH, Sui XH, Zhang XX, Wang ET, Chen WX, Chen WF. Phyllobacterium sophorae sp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium isolated from root nodules of Sophora flavescens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:399-406.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1397-1399.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Phyllobacterium (ex Knösel 1962) Knösel 1984

Assigned by: Jiao YS, Yan H, Ji ZJ, Liu YH, Sui XH, Zhang XX, Wang ET, Chen WX, Chen WF. Phyllobacterium sophorae sp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium isolated from root nodules of Sophora flavescens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:399-406.

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