Bradyrhizobium oligotrophicum
species of bacterium

Bradyrhizobium oligotrophicum is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria from the genus of Bradyrhizobium which was isolated from rice paddy soil in Miyagi Prefecture in Japan.
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Further reading
Ramírez-Bahena, Martha-Helena; Chahboune, Rajaa; Peix, Alvaro; Velázquez, Encarna (March 2013). "Reclassification of Agromonas oligotrophica into the genus Bradyrhizobium as Bradyrhizobium oligotrophicum comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Part 3): 1013–1016. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.041897-0. PMID 22685107.
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