Biochemical and Molecular Phylogenetic Study of Agriculturally Useful Association of a Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacterium and Nodule Sinorhizobium with Medicago sativa L.
Table 6
BLAST results obtained by querying the nifH gene of Nostoc sp. PTV with GenBank and geographical and ecological origins of the hits.
Closest GenBank relative
GenBank number
Query coverage %
Score %
Identity %
value
Origin of the strain and reference
Nostoc muscorum UTAD N213
GQ443450.1
100
612
99
Rice paddy in Mondego River Basin, Portugal
Nostoc muscorum clone CC1090A1
AY221814.1
94
576
99
Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Nostoc commune (UTEX 584)
L23514.1
99
565
97
Scotland
Nostoc sp. UAM 362
JQ514115.1
99
553
96
Rock surface of calcareous river with brackish water, Spain: Muga, Girona (Northeast Spain)
Nostoc sp. Baikal
JN887856.1
99
517
94
Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria from Lake Baikal
Nodularia spumigena AV1
GQ456132.1
99
511
93
The surface waters of the Baltic Sea, Stockholm, Sweden
Tolypothrix sp. UAM 379
JQ514114.1
99
462
90
Rock surface of calcareous river with brackish water, Spain: Muga, Girona (Northeast Spain)
Tolypothrix sp. UAM 378
JQ514113.1
99
462
90
Rock surface of calcareous river with brackish water, Spain: Muga, Girona (Northeast Spain)
Tolypothrix sp. UAM 415
JQ514120.1
99
453
89
Rock surface of calcareous river with brackish water, Spain: Muga, Girona (Northeast Spain)
Tolypothrix sp. UAM 413
JQ514119.1
99
453
89
Rock surface of calcareous river with brackish water, Spain: Muga, Girona (Northeast Spain)
Nostoc PCC 6720
Z31716.1
99
430
88
Nostoc PCC 6720 was previously known as Anabaenopsis circularis. This is a freshwater species
Anabaena sp. L-31
L04499.1
99
426
88
The filamentous, heterocystous, nitrogen-fixing freshwater cyanobacterium
Rock surface of calcareous river with brackish water, Spain: Muga, Girona (Northeast Spain)
Anabaena siamensis TISTR 8012
DQ176436.2
100
414
87
Anabaena siamensis is a filamentous heterocystous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium which originally was isolated from a rice paddy field in Thailand
Mastigocladus laminosus CCMEE 5324
EF570558.1
100
414
87
The cosmopolitan thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus from the University of Oregon's Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments (CCMEE)
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S1 3JD, United Kingdom
Anabaena sp. A2
AF124377.1
99
408
87
Molecular Evolution, BMC, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
Anabaena azollae
L34879.1
99
435
88
Anabaena azollae 1a, a putative symbiont of Azolla caroliniana
Anabaena variabilis
U89346.1
99
435
88
Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 is a filamentous cyanobacterium that produces heterocysts and fixes nitrogen under a variety of environmental conditions
