Herbaspirillum autotrophicum

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| genus = Herbaspirillum

| species = autotrophicum

| authority = (Aragno and Schlegel 1978)http://www.ccug.se/exlink/taxon_browser.cfm?search=Herbaspirillum%20autotrophicum {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} Ding & Yokata (2004){{Cite web |url=http://www.bashanfoundation.org/hartmann/hartmannhiltneri.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-01-08 |archive-date=2015-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923182519/http://www.bashanfoundation.org/hartmann/hartmannhiltneri.pdf |url-status=dead }}

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| synonyms = Aquaspirillum autotrophicum

| synonyms_ref = http://www.ccug.se/exlink/taxon_browser.cfm?search=Herbaspirillum%20autotrophicum {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}

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Herbaspirillum autotrophicum is a bacterium which cannot fix nitrogen under laboratory conditions, like Herbaspirillum seropedicae, because it does not have the Nif gene.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bashanfoundation.org/hartmann/hartmannhiltneri.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923182519/http://www.bashanfoundation.org/hartmann/hartmannhiltneri.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}http://www.sgm.ac.uk/IJSEM/PiP/ijsem02975.pdf{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}