Mesorhizobium loti (DSM 2627, NZP 2037, LMG 6123)

Name: Mesorhizobium loti (DSM 2627, NZP 2037, LMG 6123)
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BacDive ID 11881

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 2627 NZP 2037 LMG 6123 ICMP 1326 IAM 13633 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 381

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Mesorhizobium loti DSM 2627 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Lotus divaricatus nodule, D.S. and R. Palmerston.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 4787

LMG 6123,DSM 2627,ICMP 1326,PDDCC 1326,IAM 13633,JCM 20975

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:49:42

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Phyllobacteriaceae

Genus Mesorhizobium

Species Mesorhizobium loti

Full scientific name Mesorhizobium loti (Jarvis et al. 1982) Jarvis et al. 1997

Synonyms (1)

Rhizobium loti

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Mesorhizobium loti** (9)	Type strain
11880	M. loti ORS664T, DSM 2626, ATCC 700743, CCUG 56774, ... (type strain)
11882	M. loti DSM 2628, NZP 2238
11884	M. loti Lp22, DSM 5236
11885	M. loti DSM 6046, ATCC 35173, NZP 2196
163042	M. loti JCM 20972, IAM 13630, LMG 4284, USDA 3127
163044	M. loti JCM 20976, IAM 13634, LMG 6126, NZP 2230
163228	M. loti JCM 21556, IAM 15095, IFO 13336, NBRC 13336
163229	M. loti JCM 21557, IAM 15096, IFO 14996, NBRC 14996
163230	M. loti JCM 21558, IAM 15097, IFO 15000, NBRC 15000

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1174	RHIZOBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 98)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RHIZOBIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 98) Composition: air-dried garden soil 80.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Mannitol 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2CO3 0.2 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
1174	positive	growth	26	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Root nodule

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1174	Lotus divaricatus nodule, D.S. and R. Palmerston	Lotus divaricatus	North island	New Zealand	NZL	Australia and Oceania
67770	Nodule of Lotus divaricatus	Lotus divaricatus

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1174	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
124043	Mesorhizobium loti 16S rRNA gene, strain LMG 6123	Y14159	1426		381

GC content

1174

GC-content (mol%)59.0

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	A novel way to synthesize pantothenate in bacteria involves beta-alanine synthase present in uracil degradation pathway.	Lopez-Samano M, Beltran LFL, Sanchez-Thomas R, Davalos A, Villasenor T, Garcia-Garcia JD, Garcia-de Los Santos A.	Microbiologyopen	10.1002/mbo3.1006	2020
	Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances: Ecological Function and Impact on Soil Aggregation.	Costa OYA, Raaijmakers JM, Kuramae EE.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2018.01636	2018
	Genetic diversity of rhizobial symbionts isolated from legume species within the genera Astragalus, Oxytropis, and Onobrychis.	Laguerre G, van Berkum P, Amarger N, Prevost D.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.63.12.4748-4758.1997	1997
Phylogeny	Assessment of Polygala paniculata (Polygalaceae) characteristics for evolutionary studies of legume-rhizobia symbiosis.	Tokumoto Y, Hashimoto K, Soyano T, Aoki S, Iwasaki W, Fukuhara M, Nakagawa T, Saeki K, Yokoyama J, Fujita H, Kawaguchi M	J Plant Res	10.1007/s10265-019-01159-x	2019
Genetics	Genome sequence of the Lotus spp. microsymbiont Mesorhizobium loti strain NZP2037.	Kelly S, Sullivan J, Ronson C, Tian R, Brau L, Davenport K, Daligault H, Erkkila T, Goodwin L, Gu W, Munk C, Teshima H, Xu Y, Chain P, Woyke T, Liolios K, Pati A, Mavromatis K, Markowitz V, Ivanova N, Kyrpides N, Reeve W	Stand Genomic Sci	10.1186/1944-3277-9-7	2014
Genetics	Commonalities and differences among symbiosis islands of three Mesorhizobium loti strains.	Kasai-Maita H, Hirakawa H, Nakamura Y, Kaneko T, Miki K, Maruya J, Okazaki S, Tabata S, Saeki K, Sato S	Microbes Environ	10.1264/jsme2.me12201	2013
	An unusual infection mechanism and nodule morphogenesis in white lupin (Lupinus albus).	Gonzalez-Sama A, Lucas MM, De Felipe MR, Pueyo JJ	New Phytol	10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01121.x	2004
Metabolism	The trans-acting protein interacting with the DNA motif proximal to the transcriptional start site of plant L-asparaginase is bacterial sarcosine oxidase.	Jones WT, Al-Samarrai T, Reeves JM, Ryan GB, Kirk CA, Vincze E, Harvey D, McCambridge M, Greenwood D, Reynolds PH	J Bacteriol	10.1128/JB.186.3.811-817.2004	2004
Metabolism	Structural identification of the lipo-chitin oligosaccharide nodulation signals of Rhizobium loti.	Lopez-Lara IM, van den Berg JD, Thomas-Oates JE, Glushka J, Lugtenberg BJ, Spaink HP	Mol Microbiol	10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02372.x	1995
Enzymology	Exopolysaccharide mutants of Rhizobium loti are fully effective on a determinate nodulating host but are ineffective on an indeterminate nodulating host.	Hotter GS, Scott DB	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.173.2.851-859.1991	1991
Enzymology	Isolation and characterization of a Rhizobium loti gene required for effective nodulation of Lotus pedunculatus.	Ward LJ, Rockman ES, Ball P, Jarvis BD, Scott DB	Mol Plant Microbe Interact	10.1094/mpmi-2-224	1989
Metabolism	Biosynthesis and degradation of nodule-specific Rhizobium loti compounds in Lotus nodules.	Scott DB, Wilson R, Shaw GJ, Petit A, Tempe J	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.169.1.278-282.1987	1987
Phylogeny	Genetic diversity and host range of rhizobia nodulating Lotus tenuis in typical soils of the Salado River Basin (Argentina).	Estrella MJ, Munoz S, Soto MJ, Ruiz O, Sanjuan J	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.02405-08	2008
Enzymology	The requirement for exopolysaccharide precedes the requirement for flavolan-binding polysaccharide in nodulation of Leucaena leucocephala by Rhizobium loti.	Hotter GS, Scott DB	Arch Microbiol		1997
Genetics	Novel and complex chromosomal arrangement of Rhizobium loti nodulation genes.	Scott DB, Young CA, Collins-Emerson JM, Terzaghi EA, Rockman ES, Lewis PE, Pankhurst CE	Mol Plant Microbe Interact	10.1094/mpmi-9-0187	1996
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of transposon Tn5-induced symbiotic mutants of Rhizobium loti.	Chua KY, Pankhurst CE, Macdonald PE, Hopcroft DH, Jarvis BD, Scott DB	J Bacteriol	10.1128/jb.162.1.335-343.1985	1985
Enzymology	Transfer of an indigenous plasmid of Rhizobium loti to other rhizobia and Agrobacterium tumefaciens.	Pankhurst CE, Broughton WJ, Wieneke U	J Gen Microbiol	10.1099/00221287-129-8-2535	1983

References

#1174	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2627
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Mesorhizobium loti (DSM 2627, NZP 2037, LMG 6123)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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