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Bacteria causing mottled stripe disease in sugar cane, known as Pseudomonas rubrisubalbicans, were shown to be able to fix molecular N2 and to grow on it. The root associated diazotroph known as Herbaspirillum seropedicae, after artificial inoculation caused mottled stripe disease symptoms on sorghum and Napier grass but not on sugar cane. Both bacteria could be reisolated from leaves even 60 days after. Sugar cane leaves contained large numbers of these bacteria even in the uninoculated controls. Additional physiological characteristics of six strains of P. rubrisubalbicans were compared with those of two H. seropedicae strains and were shown to be very similar.
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Pimentel, J.P., Olivares, F., Pitard, R.M., Urquiaga, S., Akiba, F., Döbereiner, J. (1991). Dinitrogen fixation and infection of grass leaves by Pseudomonas rubrisubalbicans and Herbaspirillum seropedicae. In: Polsinelli, M., Materassi, R., Vincenzini, M. (eds) Nitrogen Fixation. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3486-6_39
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