Ensifer meliloti (DSM 1981, TAL 380)

Name: Ensifer meliloti (DSM 1981, TAL 380)
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BacDive ID 13541

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 1981 TAL 380

NCBI tax ID(s) 382

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- TAL, University of Hawai <- SU 47

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Ensifer meliloti DSM 1981 is a bacterium of the family Rhizobiaceae.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47524

DSM 1981

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Rhizobiaceae

Genus Ensifer

Species Ensifer meliloti

Full scientific name Ensifer meliloti (Dangeard 1926) Young 2003

Synonyms (4)

Sinorhizobium kummerowiae
Rhizobium meliloti
Sinorhizobium meliloti
Ensifer kummerowiae

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Ensifer meliloti** (11)	Type strain
13546	E. meliloti 3D0a2, DSM 30135, ATCC 9930, CCUG 27879, ... (type strain)
13542	E. meliloti MVII/1, pRme-MVII/1a to pRme-MVII/1g, DSM ...
13543	E. meliloti 41AK631, pRme41a to pRme41c, DSM 5171
13544	E. meliloti Alfalfa 100, DSM 6047, ATCC 4399
13545	E. meliloti 101 (USDA 477), 3DOa5, Fred 101, DSM 6048, ...
13547	E. meliloti 3D0d4, DSM 30136, ATCC 10310
24467	E. meliloti AK83, DSM 23913
24468	E. meliloti BL225C, DSM 23914
24469	E. meliloti AK58, DSM 23808
24470	E. meliloti BO21CC, DSM 23809
162896	E. meliloti JCM 20363, IAM 12035

Morphology

Colony morphology

938

Incubation period1-2 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
938	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)
938	positive	growth	26

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
938	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Characterisation of a New Family of Carboxyl Esterases with an OsmC Domain.	Jensen MV, Horsfall LE, Wardrope C, Togneri PD, Marles-Wright J, Rosser SJ.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0166128	2016

References

#938	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1981
#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 )
#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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Ensifer meliloti (DSM 1981, TAL 380)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

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