Beijerinckia
Sign in to saveBeijerinckia is a genus of bacteria from the family Beijerinckiaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumProteobacteria
- ClassAlphaproteobacteria
- OrderRhizobiales
- FamilyBeijerinckiaceae
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Beijerinckiaceae
- Named after
- Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck
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- taxon name
- Beijerinckia
- taxon rank
- genus
- Gram staining
- gram-negative bacteria
- LPSN URL
- lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/beijerinckia
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Beijerinckia is a genus of bacteria from the family Beijerinckiaceae.
Beijerinckia is a free living nitrogen-fixing aerobic microbe. It has abundant of nitrogenase enzyme capable of nitrogen reduction.Beijerinckia are characterized as nonsymbiotic (i.e., free-living), aerobic, chemoheterorophic bacteria with the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. They can be distinguished from other nitrogen-fixing bacteria by cell morphology and some physiological characteristics.
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