| rhizobium smilacinae sp. nov., an endophytic bacterium isolated from the leaf of smilacina japonica. | during a study of endophytic bacteria from traditional chinese medicinal plants, a bacterial strain, designated ptyr-5(t), was isolated from the leaf of smilacina japonica a. gray collected from taibai mountain in shaanxi province, north-west china. phylogenetic analysis based on 16s rrna gene sequences showed that strain ptyr-5(t) is a member of the genus rhizobium, exhibiting the highest sequence similarities to r. cellulosilyticum lmg 23642(t) (97.2%), r. huautlense lmg 18254(t) (97.2%) and r ... | 2014 | 25077951 |