paraburkholderia denitrificans paraburkholderia denitrificans paraburkholderia denitrificans is a gram-negative, bacterium from the genus paraburkholderia and the family burkholderiaceae which was isolated from wet forest soil on the island of liancourt rocks. paraburkholderia denitrificans has the ability to reduced nitrate to nitrogen gas. paraburkholderia denitrificans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: betaproteobacteria order: burkholderiales family: burkholderiaceae genus: paraburkholderia species: p. denitrificans binomial name paraburkholderia denitrificans(lee et al. 2013) sawana et al. 2015 type strain dsm 24336t kacc 12733t kis30-44t synonyms burkholderia denitrificans lee et al. 2013