Minimal standards for the description of new genera and species of rhizobia and agrobacteria

Philippe M. Lajudie; Mitchell Andrews; Julie Ardley; Bertrand Eardly; Estelle Jumas-Bilak; Nemanja Kuzmanović; F. Lassalle; Kristina Lindström; Ridha Mhamdi; Esperanza Martínez-Romero; Lionel Moulin; Seyed Abdollah Mousavi; Xavier Nesme; Alvaro Peix; Joanna Pu\l Awska; Emma Steenkamp; Tomasz Stępkowski; Chang-Fu Tian; Pablo Vinuesa; Gehong Wei; Anne Willems; Jerri Zilli; Peter Young

doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003426

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Minimal standards for the description of new genera and species of rhizobia and agrobacteria

Philippe M. Lajudie ^{1, 2, 3} Mitchell Andrews Julie Ardley Bertrand Eardly Estelle Jumas-Bilak ⁴ Nemanja Kuzmanović F. Lassalle Kristina Lindström Ridha Mhamdi Esperanza Martínez-Romero Lionel Moulin Seyed Abdollah Mousavi Xavier Nesme ⁵ Alvaro Peix Joanna Pu\l Awska Emma Steenkamp Tomasz Stępkowski Chang-Fu Tian Pablo Vinuesa Gehong Wei Anne Willems Jerri Zilli Peter Young

1 UMR LSTM - Laboratoire des symbioses tropicales et méditerranéennes

2 IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

3 UM - Université de Montpellier

4 HSM - Hydrosciences Montpellier

5 LEM - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne - UMR 5557

Abstract : Herein the members of the Subcommittee on Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes review recent developments in rhizobial and agrobacterial taxonomy and propose updated minimal standards for the description of new species (and genera) in these groups. The essential requirements (minimal standards) for description of a new species are (1) a genome sequence of at least the proposed type strain and (2) evidence for differentiation from other species based on genome sequence comparisons. It is also recommended that (3) genetic variation within the species is documented with sequence data from several clearly different strains and (4) phenotypic features are described, and their variation documented with data from a relevant set of representative strains. Furthermore, it is encouraged that information is provided on (5) nodulation or pathogenicity phenotypes, as appropriate, with relevant gene sequences. These guidelines supplement the current rules of general bacterial taxonomy, which require (6) a name that conforms to the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes, (7) validation of the name by publication either directly in the \\textlessem class=""\\textgreaterInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology\\textless/em\\textgreater or in a validation list when published elsewhere, and (8) deposition of the type strain in two international culture collections in separate countries.,

Keywords : minimal standards for taxonomy rhizobia agrobacteria genome-based taxonomy

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