“…The genus Bradyrhizobium was proposed by Jordan (1982) for the slow-growing root nodule bacteria, in which colonies are generally less than or equal to 1 mm on yeast extract-mannitol agar (YMA) medium after 5-10 days incubation at 28 u C. At the time of writing, the genus contained 12 defined species: Bradyrhizobium japonicum (Jordan, 1982), B. elkanii (Kuykendall et al, 1992), B. liaoningense (Xu et al, 1995), B. yuanmingense (Yao et al, 2002), B. betae (Rivas et al, 2004), B. canariense (Vinuesa et al, 2005a), B. denitrificans (van Berkum et al, 2006), B. iriomotense (Islam et al, 2008), B. jicamae, B. pachyrhizi (Ramírez-Bahena et al, 2009), B. lablabi (Chang et al, 2011) and B. cytisi (Chahboune et al, 2011). With the exception of B. betae, all species are symbiotic nitrogenfixing bacteria associated with different legumes.…”