| rhizobium etli bv. mimosae, a novel biovar isolated from mimosa affinis. | fifty rhizobial isolates from root nodules of mimosa affinis, a small leguminous plant native to mexico, were identified as rhizobium etli on the basis of the results of pcr-rflp and rflp analyses of small-subunit rrna genes, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and dna-dna homology. they are, however, a restricted group of lineages with low genetic diversity within the species. the isolates from m. affinis differed-from the r. etli strains that orginated from bean plants (phaseolus vulgaris) in th ... | 1999 | 10555329 |