Disease Caused by Rhizobium
While Rhizobia plays a crucial role in enhancing plant growth by facilitating nitrogen fixation, it’s important to be aware that certain strains can also act as pathogens, potentially leading to detrimental effects on plant health. Some species of Rhizobia such as Rhizobium rhizogenes and Rhizobium radiobium cause serious disease in plants . Since it is gram negative bacteria its cell wall contains a thin layer of peptidoglycan and lipoprotein which make them resistant to drugs and antibiotics .
Rhizobium
Rhizobium is a bacterium that has good as well as bad effects on plants, animals, and the environment. It is a group of bacteria, some are very useful for us whereas some are pathogenic. Rhizobium is known to be a very good symbiote, symbiotic relationship between leguminous plants and rhizobium plays a very important role in our environment. Diseases caused by rhizobium are so hard to cure, do you know why it is so? We will talk more about Rhizobium in this article.
Table of Content
- What is Rhizobium?
- Role of Rhizobium
- What is Nitrogen Fixation?
- Why Nitrogen Fixation?
- Classification of Rhizobium
- Disease Caused by Rhizobium