Table 1.

Rhizobial strains used for Lotus inoculants in different countries.

Lotus spp.	Country	Rhizobial straina	Other strain designations	Strain origin	Referenceb
L. corniculatus		LL32			Sannazzaro et al., 2011;
	Argentina	LL12		Argentina	A. Perticari, p.c.
		LL33
	Brazil	SEMIA 806		Brazil	Roma-Neto et al., 2010;
		SEMIA 816			A.B. de Oliveira, p.c.
	Uruguay	U510	B816/U226	Australia	Sotelo et al., 2011; MGAP
	Australia	SU343	ICMP3663/NZP2196/	Unknown	Charlton et al., 1981;
			ATCC35173/DSM 6046		Howieson et al., 2011
	New Zealand	SU343	ICMP3663	Unknown	ICMP collection
		ICMP9005	ICMP3153/R7A	Unknown
		B733		Argentina	Sannazzaro et al., 2011;
L. tenuis/glaber	Argentina	LL32		Argentina
		NZP2213		New Zealand	A. Perticari, p.c.
	Brazil	SEMIA 830		Unknown	Roma-Neto et al., 2010
	Uruguay	U510	B816, U226	Australia	Sotelo et al., 2011; MGAP
L. uliginosus/pedunculatus	Argentina	U1401	NZP2309	Australia	Lowther, 1984
	Brazil	SEMIA839	NZP2021f/CC829/TAL925	United States	Howieson et al., 2011
	Uruguay	U1401	NZP2309/U526	Australia	Lowther, 1984
	United States	USDA3469	NZP2309	Australia	Barker et al., 2012
	Australia	CC829	NZP2021f	United States	Howieson et al., 2011
	New Zealand	ICMP 5798	NZP2309/CC814s/ICMP4681	Australia	Lowther, 1984;
		ICMP5942	NZP2021f/CC829	United States	Howieson et al., 2011
L. subbiflorus/hispidus	Argentina	LL53	CC814b	Australia	A. Perticari, p.c.
	Brazil	SEMIA848	U510	Australia	Binde et al., 2009;
		SEMIA849	U512/NZP2037		A.B. de Oliveira, p.c.
	Uruguay	U531	NC3	Uruguay	MGAP
	Australia	CC814b		Australia	Bullard et al., 2005

^aIt is likely that CC814, CC814s and CC814b correspond to the same original strain. ^bMGAP, Ministerio de Ganaderia, Agricultura y Pesca, Uruguay; ICMP, International Collection of Micro-organisms from Plants, New Zealand.