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Proposal that Agrobacterium radiobacter has priority over Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Request for an opinion.

Young JM, Pennycook SR, Watson DR

Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand. youngj@LandcareResearch.co.nz

It is proposed that Agrobacterium radiobacter has priority as the earlier heterotypic (subjective) synonym when it is united with Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The nomenclatural status of A. tumefaciens as a later heterotypic synonym of the united species is not lost and it remains the type species of the genus. Request for an opinion.

Published 1 February 2006 in Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 56: 491-3.
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