What is Rhizobium?
Rhizobium is a group of bacteria. The word rhizobium refers to the genus of various species that come under this group such as Rhizobium leguminous, Rhizobium alamii, and Rhizobium eguminosarum. It’s a gram-negative soil bacteria that is present in the roots of leguminous plants. It was first cultivated and isolated by Martinus Beisernick in 1888.
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