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Book of Abstracts <strong>First</strong> <strong>Legume</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2013: A <strong>Legume</strong> Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013<br />

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Phenotypic and genetic diversity of rhizobia isolated from nodules of the legume genera<br />

Hedysarum coronarium in North West region of Morocco<br />

Fatima Ezzakkioui 1 , Nourdin El Mourabit 2 , Said Barrijal 1<br />

1 Laboratoire de Valorisation Biotechnologique des Microorganismes Génomique et Bioinformatique, FSTT<br />

2 CRRA,INRA, Tanger<br />

The species Hedysarum coronarium L. (tribe Hedysareae, family Leguminosae), known by the Italian<br />

name of sulla or Spanish sainfoin, ranges within the Mediterranean basin from northern Africa to<br />

southern Spain and in Italy from centrally to southern. In Morocco these phytogenetic resources<br />

are currently damaged by severe genetic erosion due to overgrazing, irregular rainfall and<br />

reduction of rangeland. Phenotypic and genetic diversity of 60 strains, isolated from root nodules<br />

of Hedysarum coronarium in North West region of Morocco, were studied using both phenotypic<br />

and genetic techniques. The phenotypic tests, (growth rate, tolerance to salinity, pH, temperature,<br />

resistance to antibiotics and metals ...), revealed that most of strains are belonging to rhizobia and<br />

genetic tests clustered all strains into 26 different profiles. Results of 16S rRNA sequencing<br />

revealed that Hedysarum rhizobia were phylogenetically related to Rhizobium sullae strain IS 123T in<br />

14 groups. In this study, we revealed that a large diversity among the 60 strains.<br />

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