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For the past two years, Jeffrey Tarrand and I have been concerned with the classification of Spirillum lipoferum, a nitrogen-fixing bacterium first described by Beijerinck (2) in 1925. Except for a few scattered reports in the literature (1, 6, 12) this organism was largely forgotten until 1974 when Döbereiner and Day (4) showed that it was associated with the roots of tropical grasses. Because a large number of strains have now been isolated, and because precise communication between investigators is one of the goals of bacterial taxonomy, we began a comprehensive taxonom-ic study of the S. lipoferum group.
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Krieg, N.R., Tarrand, J.J. (1978). Taxonomy of the Root-Associated Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Spirillum Lipoferum . In: Döbereiner, J., Burris, R.H., Hollaender, A., Franco, A.A., Neyra, C.A., Scott, D.B. (eds) Limitations and Potentials for Biological Nitrogen Fixation in the Tropics. Basic Life Sciences, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8957-0_22
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