Rhizobiales

Translingual

Etymology

Rhizobium +‎ -ales

Proper noun

Rhizobiales

A taxonomic order within the class Alphaproteobacteria – some of the purple non-sulfur bacteria, that are symbiotic on plant roots, and fix nitrogen.

Hypernyms

(order): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Alphaproteobacteria - class

Hyponyms

(order): Aurantimonadaceae, Bartonellaceae, Beijerinckiaceae, Bradyrhizobiaceae, Brucellaceae, Hyphomicrobiaceae, Methylobacteriaceae, Methylocystaceae, Phyllobacteriaceae, Rhizobiaceae, Rhodobiaceae - families

References

Rhizobiales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Rhizobiales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Rhizobiales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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