''Herbaspirillum rubrisubalbicans'' is a

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 ...

of the genus ''Herbaspirillum'' found in roots and stems of sugarcane (''

Saccharum officinarum ''Saccharum officinarum'' is a large, strong-growing species of grass in the sugarcane genus. Its stout stalks are rich in sucrose, a disaccharide sugar which accumulates in the stalk internodes. It originated in New Guinea, and is now cultivate ...

''), sorghum (''

Sorghum bicolor ''Sorghum bicolor'', commonly called sorghum () and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus ''Sorghum'' cultivated for its grain. The grain is used as food by humans, ...

''), and rice (''

Oryza sativa ''Oryza sativa'', having the common name Asian cultivated rice, is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being ''Oryza glaberrima, O. glaberrima'', African rice. It was History of rice cultivation ...

''). ''H. rubrisubalbicans'' can cause symptoms of the mottled stripe disease in sugarcane and sorghum. Leaves inoculated with ''H. rubrisubalbicans'' show red stripes along the secondary veins of the leaf blade.

References

External links

Type strain of ''Herbaspirillum rubrisubalbicans'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Burkholderiales Sugarcane diseases Bacteria described in 1996 {{betaproteobacteria-stub