“…Genomic studies have revealed that nitrogen fixation-related genes constitute a nitrogen fixation cluster, such as the 17 nif genes ( nifQ , nifA , nifL , nifH , nifD , nifK , nifT , nifY , nifE , nifN , nifX , nifS , nifU , nifW , nifZ , nifM , and nifF ) distributed in a 49 kb region in Stutzerimonas stutzeri A1501 T [29, 30]. Previous studies have demonstrated that all nitrogen fixation bacteria in the order Rhodospirillales carry nif gene clusters, and no vnf or anf cluster has been identified in these species [6–8, 13, 19, 28, 31].…”