Ensifer meliloti (DSM 23808, AK58)

Name: Ensifer meliloti (DSM 23808, AK58)
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BacDive ID 24469

Type strain

Strain Designation AK58

Culture col. no. DSM 23808 AK58

NCBI tax ID(s) 382

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- A. Mengoni, Univ. Firenze, Italy; AK58 <- M. Roumiantseva, Russian Institute of Agricultural Microbiology, St. Peterburg; AK58

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Ensifer meliloti AK58 is a bacterium that was isolated from root nodules of Medicago falcata.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407221

DSM 23808

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:37

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
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
24470	E. meliloti BO21CC, DSM 23809
162896	E. meliloti JCM 20363, IAM 12035

Morphology

Colony morphology

20537

Incubation period2-3 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20537	NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: NUTRIENT AGAR (DSMZ Medium 1) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Meat extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
20537	positive	growth	28

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
20537	root nodules of Medicago falcata	Medicago falcata	North Aral Sea	Kazakhstan	KAZ	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20537	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Permanent draft genome sequences of the symbiotic nitrogen fixing Ensifer meliloti strains BO21CC and AK58.	Galardini M, Bazzicalupo M, Biondi E, Brambilla E, Brilli M, Bruce D, Chain P, Chen A, Daligault H, Davenport KW, Deshpande S, Detter JC, Goodwin LA, Han C, Han J, Huntemann M, Ivanova N, Klenk HP, Kyrpides NC, Markowitz V, Mavrommatis K, Mocali S, Nolan M, Pagani I, Pati A, Pini F, Pitluck S, Spini G, Szeto E, Teshima H, Woyke T, Mengoni A.	Stand Genomic Sci	10.4056/sigs.3797438	2013

References

#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 )
#20537	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23808
#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 23808, AK58)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony 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

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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