Herbaspirillum

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Herbaspirillum

| authority = Baldani et al. 1986

| type_species = Herbaspirillum seropedicae

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =H. aquaticum {{Cite web |url=http://eztaxon-e.ezbiocloud.net/ezt_hierarchy?m=browse&k=Herbaspirillum&d=2 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-01-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044346/http://eztaxon-e.ezbiocloud.net/ezt_hierarchy?m=browse&k=Herbaspirillum&d=2 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}

H. autotrophicum

H. chlorophenolicum

H. frisingense

H. hiltneri

H. huttiense

H. lusitanum

H. massiliense {{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Herbaspirillum|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/herbaspirillum}}

H. rhizosphaerae

H. rubrisubalbicans

H. seropedicae

}}

Herbaspirillum is a genus of bacteria, including the nitrogen-fixing Herbaspirillum lusitanum.{{cite journal|last1=Parker|first1=Charles Thomas|last2=Wigley|first2=Sarah|last3=Garrity|first3=George M|editor1-first=Charles Thomas|editor1-last=Parker|editor2-first=George M|editor2-last=Garrity|title=Nomenclature Abstract for Herbaspirillum Baldani et al. 1986 emend. Carro et al. 2012|journal=The NamesforLife Abstracts|doi=10.1601/nm.1705|language=en|year=2009}}

Although usually found in soil environments, it has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.{{cite bioRxiv|last1=Salter|first1=S|last2=Cox|first2=M|last3=Turek|first3=E|last4=Calus|first4=S|last5=Cookson|first5=W|last6=Moffatt|first6=M|last7=Turner|first7=P|last8=Parkhill|first8=J|last9=Loman|first9=N|last10=Walker|first10=A|author6-link=Miriam Moffatt|author8-link=Julian Parkhill|author9-link=Nick Loman |title=Reagent contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses|date=2014|biorxiv=10.1101/007187}}