Ensifer meliloti (DSM 6048, ATCC 10312, USDA 477)

Name: Ensifer meliloti (DSM 6048, ATCC 10312, USDA 477)
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BacDive ID 13545

Type strain

Strain Designation 101 (USDA 477), 3DOa5, Fred 101

Culture col. no. DSM 6048 ATCC 10312 USDA 477 101 (USDA 477) 3DOa5 1 more

NCBI tax ID(s) 382

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- ATCC <- L.W. Erdman, 3DOa5 <- L. Leonard <- E. Fred, 101 (USDA 477)

Links

Ensifer meliloti 101 is a bacterium of the family Rhizobiaceae.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 35198

ATCC 10312,DSM 6048

@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)
13541	E. meliloti DSM 1981, TAL 380
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
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

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
2445	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)
2445	positive	growth	26

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HE963763 (>99% sequence identity) for Sinorhizobium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1757
Soil Samples	5488
Animal Samples	1189
Plant Samples	2143
Total Samples	10577

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2445	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Sinorhizobium meliloti partial 16S rRNA gene, strain ATCC 10312	HE963763	1449		382

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#2445	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 6048
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#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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