| rhizobium rosettiformans sp. nov., isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane dump site, and reclassification of blastobacter aggregatus hirsch and muller 1986 as rhizobium aggregatum comb. nov. | a gram-negative, rod-shaped, motile, aerobic bacterial strain, w3(t), was isolated from hexachlorocyclohexane (hch)-contaminated groundwater from lucknow, india, and its taxonomic position was determined using a polyphasic approach. strain w3(t) shared highest 16s rrna gene sequence similarity of 97.8 % with rhizobium selenitireducens b1(t), followed by rhizobium daejeonense l61(t) (97.7 %), rhizobium radiobacter atcc 19358(t) (97.5 %) and blastobacter aggregatus ifam 1003(t) (97.2 %). strain w3 ... | 2011 | 20584817 |