Peter van Berkum - Publications 1997-2002

  1. HASHEM, F. H., SALEH, S. A., VAN BERKUM, P. and VOLL, M. 1997. Survival of Bradyrhizobium sp.(Arachis) on fungicide-treated peanut seed in relation to plant growth and yield. World J. Biotech. Microbiol. 13:335-340.
  2. JARVIS, B. D. W., VAN BERKUM, P., CHEN, W. X., NOUR, S. M., FERNANDEZ, M. P., CLEYET-MAREL, J. C. and M. GILLIS. 1997. Transfer of Rhizobium loti, Rhizobium huakuii, Rhizobium ciceri, Rhizobium mediterraneum, and Rhizobium tianshanense to Mesorhizobium gen. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47:895-898.
  3. O'NEILL, N. R., VAN BERKUM, P., LIN, J-J., KUO, J., UDE, G. N., KENWORTHY, W. and SAUNDERS, J. A. 1997. Application of Amplified Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) for the genetic characterization of Colletotrichum pathogens of alfalfa. Phytopath. 87:745-750.
  4. IBEKWE, A. M., ANGLE, J. S., CHANEY, R. L. and VAN BERKUM, P. 1997. Enumeration and N2 fixation potential of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii grown in soil with varying pH values and heavy metal concentrations. Ag. Ecosys. Environ. 61:103-111.
  5. BUTTERY, B. R., PARK, S. T. and VAN BERKUM, P. 1997. Effects of cultivar and strain of Rhizobium on growth, bean yield, and nitrogen content of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Can. J. Plant Sciences 77:347-351.
  6. BARRERA, L. L., TRUJILLO, M. E., GOODFELLOW, M., GARCIA, F. J., DAVILA, G., VAN BERKUM, P. and E. MARTINEZ-ROMERO. 1997. Genetic diversity of bradyrhizobia nodulating Lupinus spp. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol.47:1086-1091.
  7. IBEKWE, A. M., ANGLE, J. S., CHANEY, R. L., and VAN BERKUM, P. 1998. Zinc and Cadmium effects on rhizobia and white clover using chelator-buffered nutrient solution. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 62:204-211.
  8. LAGUERRE, G., VAN BERKUM, P., AMARGER, N. and PREVOST, D. 1997. Genetic diversity of rhizobial symbionts isolated from legume species within the genera Astragalus, Oxytropis, and Onobrychis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:4748-4758.
  9. VAN BERKUM, P., BEYENE, D., BAO, G., CAMPBELL, A. T. and EARDLY, B. D. 1998. Rhizobium mongolense sp. nov., is one of three rhizobial genotypes identified which nodulate and form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with Medicago ruthenica [(L.)Ledebour]. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol.Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48:13-22.
  10. WANG, E. T. , VAN BERKUM , P., BEYENE, D., SUI, X. H., CHEN, W. X. and MART NEZ-ROMERO, E. 1998. Rhizobium huautlense sp. nov., a symbiont of Sesbania herbacae which has a close phylogenetic relationship with Rhizobium galegae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48:687-699.
  11. TULLY, R. E., VAN BERKUM, P., LOVINS, K. W. and KEISTER, D. L. 1998. Identification and Sequencing of a Cytochrome P-450 Gene Cluster from Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1398:243-255.
  12. SANORIA, C.L., YADAV, J., AND VAN BERKUM, P. 1998. Feasibility of French bean inoculation with exotic rhizobial strains. Ind. J. Agric. Chem. 31:33- 40.
  13. KOTOB, S. I., McLAUGHLIN, S. M., VAN BERKUM, P. and M. FASAL. 1999. Characterization of two Perkesis spp. From the softshell clam, Mya arenaria using the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 46:439-444.
  14. SATO, M. L., GARCIA-BLASQUEZ, C. and VAN BERKUM, P. 1999. Verification of strain identity in Brazilian soybean inoculants by using the Polymerase Chain Reaction. World J. Biotech. Microbiol. 15:387-391.
  15. VAN BERKUM, P., RUIHUA, F., CAMPBELL, T. A. and EARDLY, B. D. 1999. Some issues of relevance in the taxonomy of rhizobia. pp. 267-269. In: Highlights of Nitrogen Fixation Research. E. Martinez-Romero and G. Hernandez (eds.). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
  16. WANG, E. T., VAN BERKUM, P., SUI, X. H., BEYENE, D., CHEN, W. X. and MARTINEZ-ROMERO, E. 1999. Diversity of rhizobia associating with Amorpha fruticosa isolated from Chinese soils and description of Mesorhizobium amorphae sp. nov. Int J. Syst. Bacteriol. 49:51-65.
  17. KEISTER, D., TULLEY, R. E. and VAN BERKUM, P. 1999. A cytochrome P450 cluster in the Rhizobiaceae. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 45:301-303.
  18. VAN BERKUM, P. and FUHRMANN, J. J. 2000. Evolutionary relationships among the soybean bradyrhizobia reconstructed from 16S rRNA and Internally Transcribed Spacer sequence divergence. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50:2165- 2172.
  19. CAMARA, P. S., O'NEILL, N. R., VAN BERKUM, P. B., PALM, M. E. and P. H. DERNOEDEN. 2000. Ophiosphaerella agrostis sp. nov. and its relationship to other species of Ophiosphaerella. Mycologia. 92:317-325.
  20. ROBINSON, K. O., BEYENE , D., VAN BERKUM, P., KNIGHT-MASON, R. and BHARDWAJ, H. L. 2000. Variability in plant-microbe interaction between Lupinus lines and Bradyrhizobium strains. Plant Science 159:257-264.
  21. FARR, D. F., O'NEILL, N. O. and VAN BERKUM, P. 2000. Morphological and molecular studies on Dendryphion penicillatum and Pleospora papaveracea, pathogens of Papaver somniferum. Mycologia 92:145-153.
  22. VAN BERKUM, P., FUHRMANN, J. J. and EARDLY, B. D. 2000. Phylogeny of rhizobia. In: Pedrosa, F. O, Hungria, M., Yates, G. and Newton, W. E. (Eds.), Nitrogen Fixation: From Molecules to Crop Productivity, pp. 165-169. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
  23. VELAZQUEZ, E., MARTINEZ-ROMERO, E., RODRIGUEZ-NAVARRO, D., TRUJILLO, M., DAZA, A., MATEOS, P. F., MARTINEZ-MOLINA, E., and VAN BERKUM, P. 2001. Characterization of rhizobial isolates of Phaseolus vulgaris by staircase electrophoresis of low molecular weight RNA. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:1008-1010.
  24. VAN BERKUM, P. and FUHRMANN, J.J. 2001. Characterization of soybean bradyrhizobia for which serogoup affinities have not been identified. Can. J. Microbiol. 47:519-525.
  25. RHODES, M, KATOR, H., KOTOB, S. I., VAN BERKUM, P., KAATTARI, I., VOGELBEIN, W., FLOYD, M., BUTLER, R., QUINN, F., and OTTINGER. 2001. A unique Mycobacterium sp. resembling Mycobacterium marinum and Mycobacterium ulcerans isolated from striped bass (Morone saxatilis). Emerging Infectious Diseases 7:896-899.
  26. CAMARA, M. P., PALM, M. E., VAN BERKUM, P., and STEWART, E. 2001. Systematics of Paraphaeosphaeria: A molecular and morphological approach. Mycological Research 105:41-56.
  27. VAN BERKUM, P., REHNER, S. and EARDLY, B. D. 2002. How well does 16S rRNA gene phylogeny represent evolutionary relationships among the rhizobia. In: Nitrogen Fixation: Global Perspectives, Finan, T. M., O'Brian, M. R., Layzell, D. B., Vessey, J. K. and Newton, W. E. (Eds.), pp. 71-74. CAB International, New York.
  28. VAN BERKUM, P. and EARDLY, B. D. 2002. The aquatic budding bacterium Blastobacter denitrificans is a nitrogen-fixing symbiont of Aeschynomene indica. In: Nitrogen Fixation: Global Perspectives, Finan, T. M., O'Brian, M. R., Layzell, D. B., Vessey, J. K. and Newton, W. E. (Eds.), pp. 520. CAB International, New York.
  29. BAO, J. R., FRAVEL, D. R., O'NEILL, N. R., LAZAROVITS, G. and VAN BERKUM, P. 2002. Genetic analysis of pathogenic and nonpathogenic Fusarium oxysporum from tomato plants. Can J. Bot. 80:271-279.
  30. VAN BERKUM, P. and EARDLY, B. D. 2002. The aquatic budding bacterium Blastobacter denitrificans is a nitrogen-fixing symbiont of Aeschynomene indica. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:1132-1136.
  31. COUSIN, C., GRANT, J., DIXON, F., BEYENE, D. and VAN BERKUM, P. 2002. Influence of Biosolids compost on the bradyrhizobial genotypes recovered from cowpea and soybean nodules. Arch. Microbiol. 178: 161-164.
  32. TURANO, F. J., PANTA, G. R., ALLARD, M. W. and VAN BERKUM, P. 2002. The putative glutamate receptors from plants are related to two subfamilies of animal neurotransmitter receptors via distinct evolutionary mechanisms. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18:1417-1420.
  33. CAMARA, M. P. S., O'NEILL, N. R., and VAN BERKUM, P. 2002. Phylogeny of Stemphylium based on ITS and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate sequences. Mycologia 94:660-672.
  34. PARKER, M. A., LAFAY, B., BURDON, J. J. and VAN BERKUM, P. 2002. Conflicting phylogeographic patterns in rRNA and nifD indicate regionally restricted gene transfer in Bradyrhizobium. Microbiology 148:2557-2565.
  35. WANG, E., ROGEL, A., SUR, X. H., CHEN, W. X., MARTINEZ-ROMERO, E. and VAN BERKUM, P. 2002. Mesorhizobium amorphae, a rhizobial species that nodulates Amorpha fruticosa, is native to American soils. Arch. Microbiol. 178:301-305.
  36. FARRAND, S. K., VAN BERKUM, P., and OGER, P. 2003. Agrobacterium is a definable genus of the Family Rhizobiaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (in press).
  37. VAN BERKUM, P., TEREFEWORK, Z., PAULIN, L., SUOMALAININ, S., LINDSTROM, K. and EARDLY, B. D. 2003. Discordant phylogenies with the rrn loci of rhizobia. J. Bacteriol. 185:2988-2998.
  38. ABOU-SHANAB, R. A., ANGLE, J. S., DELORME, T. A., CHANEY, R. L., VAN BERKUM, P., MOAWAD, H., GHANEM, K., GHOZLAN, H. A. 2003. Rhizobacterial effects on nickel extraction from soil and uptake by Alyssum murale. New Phytol. 158: 219-224.
  39. BEYENE, D., KASSA, S., AMPY, F., ASSEFFA, A., GEBREMEDHIN, T. and VAN BERKUM, P. 2003. Ethiopian soils harbor natural populations of rhizobia that form symbioses with common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Arch Microbiol. (submitted).


Chapters and Review articles

  1. VAN BERKUM, P. and BOHLOOL, B. B. 1980. Evaluation of nitrogen fixation by bacteria in association with roots of tropical grasses. Microb. Revs. 44:491-517.
  2. VAN BERKUM, P., McCLUNG, C. R., and SLOGER, C. 1982. Some pertinent remarks on N2 fixation associated with the roots of grasses. In: Biological Nitrogen Fixation Technology for Tropical Agriculture, P. H. Graham and S. C. Harris (eds.) pp. 513-526, CIAT, Cali, Columbia.
  3. VAN BERKUM, P. 1984. Potential for nonsymbiotic and associative dinitrogen fixation. Chapter 9. In: Nitrogen in Crop Production. Amer. Soc. Agron. pp. 145-163, R. D. Hauck (ed.), American Society of Agronomy, Madison, WI.
  4. CREGAN, P. B. and VAN BERKUM, P. 1984. Genetics of nitrogen metabolism and physiological/biochemical selection for increased grain crop productivity. Theoretical and App. Genetics 67:97-111.
  5. VAN BERKUM, P. and SLOGER, C. 1985. A critical evaluation of the characteristics of associative nitrogen fixation in grasses. Proceedings of the International Symposium Nitrogen and the Environment, pp. 139-159, K. A. Malik, S. H. m. Naqvi, M. I. H. Aleem (eds.), NIAB Faisalabad, Pakistan.
  6. VAN BERKUM, P. and EARDLY, B. D. 1998. Molecular Evolutionary Systematics of the Rhizobiaceae. pp. 1-24. In: H. Spaink, A. Kondorosi and P. Hooykaas (eds.), The Rhizobiaceae, Kluwer Academic Pub. Dordrecht.
  7. VAN BERKUM, P. and EARDLY, B. D. 2003. Impact of Genomics in the Reconstruction of Evolutionary Relationships of Nitrogen-fixing Organisms and Effects on Taxonomy. In: R. Palacios and W. E. Newton (eds.), NITROGEN FIXATION: 1888-2001", Volume VI, Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press.