bradyrhizobium liaoningense bradyrhizobium liaoningense bradyrhizobium liaoningense is a species of legume-root nodulating, microsymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium. it was first isolated from glycine soja and glycine max root nodules in china. its type strain is strain 2281. bradyrhizobium liaoningense scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: nitrobacteraceae genus: bradyrhizobium species: b. liaoningense binomial name bradyrhizobium liaoningensexu et al. 1995