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A member of the genus , the bacteria family of Rhizobiaceae.
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A bacterium Ensifer adhaerens FERM P-19486 with the ability of alliinase production was isolated from a soil sample.
Different rhizobial species belonging to the genera Rhizobium, Agrobacterium, Ensifer, Bradyrhizobium, and Ochrobactrum are able to produce nodules with common bean plants (Wang et al. 2016).
E. adhaerens constitutes a group of non-nodulating bacteria that do not harbor nifH gene, but the genus Ensifer, comprising the former Sinorhizobium species and Ensifer adhaerens, contain bacteria capable of nitrogen fixation in symbiosis with leguminous plants (Martens et al. 2008).
Among the 15 strains that were genotypically characterized, five belong to the genus Agrobacterium, and others to the genera Microbacterium (2), Bacillus (2), Rhizobium (2), Ensifer (1), Chryseobacterium (1), Pseudomonas (1), and Rhodococcus (1) (Table 1).
Increases of root hairs formation were observed for plants inoculated with the rhizospheric strains 5, 6, Ensifer sp. (number 1) and Chryseobacterium sp. (number 3), and for all seedlings inoculated with endophytes (Fig. 1).
Genotypic characterization Cultivar Phylum Family Genus Rhizospheric strains [1] Proteobacteria Rizobiaceae Ensifer sp. Plus Licopene [3] Bacteroidetes Flavobacteriaceae Chryseobacterium sp. [7] Firmicutes Bacillaceae Bacillus sp. [4] Firmicutes Bacillaceae Bacillus sp. Indigo Perù [6] n.p. n.p. n.p. [5] n.p. n.p. n.p.
Alliinase of Ensifer adhaerens FERM P-19486 is the enzyme with a novel type of substrate specificity, and thus considered to be beneficial when used in combination with garlic enzyme with respect to absolute conversion of -alliin to allicin.
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EMT: Ensifer-mediated transformation; AMT: Agrobacterium-mediated transformation; Ti: Tumor inducing; T-DNA: Transfer-DNA; ROS: Reactive oxygen species; SA: Salicylic acid; T6SS: Type VI secretion system.
The sequencing and analysis of the OV14 genome increases our understanding of T-DNA transfer by non- Agrobacterium species and creates a platform for the continued improvement of Ensifer-mediated transformation (EMT).
Within the Ensifer/ Sinorhizobium group, E. adhaerens formed a sister group to the Sinorhizobium species.
By concatenating the full length sequence of 12 housekeeping (16S rRNA, 23S rRNA, atpD, dnaK, exoC, gap, gyrB, infB, nusA, pnp, recA, rpoB, thrC) and 8 rhizobial virulence genes (chvA ndvA), chvB, chvD, chvG(exoS), miaA, and pcs) OV14 grouped with the Sinorhizobium of the Ensifer/ Sinorhizobium group forming a clade which is a sister group to the Rhizobium/Agrobacterium clade.
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