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Genetic relationship of Sinorhizobium meliloti and Sinorhizobium medicae strains isolated from Caucasian region

2003; Oxford University Press; Volume: 220; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0378-1097(03)00098-3

1574-6968

Emanuele G. Biondi, Elena Pilli, Elisa Giuntini, Marina L. Roumiantseva, Е. Е. Андронов, Olga P Onichtchouk, О. Н. Курчак, Б. В. Симаров, Nikolay Dzyubenko, Alessio Mengoni, Marco Bazzicalupo,

Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Sinorhizobium meliloti and Sinorhizobium medicae are two closely related species of the genus Sinorhizobium showing a similar host range, nodulating leguminous species of the genera Medicago, Melilotus and Trigonella, but their phylogenic relationship has not been elucidated yet. In this paper we report the application of three different molecular markers, (i) RFLP of nodD genes, (ii) 16S-23S rDNA intergenic gene spacer fingerprinting and (iii) amplification fragment length polymorphism to S. meliloti and S. medicae strains isolated from the Caucasian area, which is the region of origin of the host plant Medicago. The analysis of data could suggest the origin of S. medicae strains from an ancestral S. meliloti population.