| rhizobium calliandrae sp. nov., rhizobium mayense sp. nov. and rhizobium jaguaris sp. nov., rhizobial species nodulating the medicinal legume calliandra grandiflora. | calliandra grandiflora has been used as a medicinal plant for thousands of years in mexico. rhizobial strains were obtained from root nodules of c. grandiflora collected from different geographical regions in chiapas and characterized by box-pcr, amplified rdna restriction analysis (ardra) and 16s rrna gene sequence analysis. most isolates corresponded to members of the genus rhizobium and those not related to species with validly published names were further characterized by reca, atpd, rpob an ... | 2013 | 23584283 |