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The Family Azotobacteraceae

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The Azotobacteraceae are a coherent group of aerobic, free-living, heterotrophic bacteria whose main characteristic is the ability to fix atmospheric (molecular) nitrogen in a nitrogen-free or nitrogen-poor medium with organic carbon compounds as energy source. Although some representatives of this family can produce associative growth (which is different from symbiotic growth) with higher plants, members of this group are generally called nonsymbiotic nitrogen fixers.

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Becking, JH. (1981). The Family Azotobacteraceae. In: Starr, M.P., Stolp, H., Trüper, H.G., Balows, A., Schlegel, H.G. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9_66

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