Rhizobiales

Translingual

Etymology

Rhizobium +‎ -ales

Proper noun

Rhizobiales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Alphaproteobacteria – some of the purple non-sulfur bacteria, that are symbiotic on plant roots, and fix nitrogen.

Hypernyms

• (order): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Alphaproteobacteria - class

Hyponyms

• (order): Aurantimonadaceae, Bartonellaceae, Beijerinckiaceae, Bradyrhizobiaceae, Brucellaceae, Hyphomicrobiaceae, Methylobacteriaceae, Methylocystaceae, Phyllobacteriaceae, Rhizobiaceae, Rhodobiaceae - families

References

• Rhizobiales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rhizobiales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Rhizobiales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248