Herbaspirillum seropedicae is an aerobic, prototrophic, endophytic nitrogen-fixing, plant-growth promoting bacterium, of the Betaproteobacteria found inside tissues of important crops such as corn, sugar-cane, rice, wheat and sorghum without causing disease to the plant partner, and has a low survival rate in plant-free soil. H. seropedicae strain SmR1 is a spontaneous streptomycin resistant mutant of strain Z78 (ATCC 35893). '; $TEXT_COORD = 'Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Fábio de Oliveira Pedrosa
                     Prof. Dr. Emanuel Maltempi de Souza'; $ORG_IMG = 'figuras/nfn_logo.gif'; $LEGENDA_IMG = 'Nucleus of Nitrogen Fixation'; ?>