''Bradyrhizobium betae'' is a species of

legume Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consum ...

nitrogen-fixing Nitrogen fixation is a chemical process by which molecular dinitrogen () is converted into ammonia (). It occurs both biologically and abiological nitrogen fixation, abiologically in chemical industry, chemical industries. Biological nitrogen ...

bacterium Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among the ...

first isolated from the roots of ''

Beta vulgaris ''Beta vulgaris'' (beet) is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily Betoideae of the family Amaranthaceae. Economically, it is the most important crop of the large order Caryophyllales. It has several cultivar groups: the sugar beet, of gre ...

'', hence its name. It is slow-growing an endophytic. The type strain is PL7HG1^T (=LMG 21987^T =CEC^T 5829^T).

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Type strain of ''Bradyrhizobium betae'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Nitrobacteraceae Bacteria described in 2004 {{Nitrobacteraceae-stub

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