“…Currently, rhizobia are found in two classes: Alpha-rhizobia including species in the well-known genus Rhizobium and other genera in the class Alphaproteobacteria, and Beta-rhizobia covering the symbiotic species in genera Paraburkholderia (splited from Burkholderia ), Cupriavidus and Trinickia symbiotica in the class Betaproteobacteria ( Gyaneshwar et al, 2011 ; Peix et al, 2015 ; Beukes et al, 2017 ; Sprent et al, 2017 ; Los Santos et al, 2018 ). Species in Mimosa genus and another large mimosoid genus Calliandra mainly nodulate with Beta-rhizobia, particularly Paraburkholderia and Trinickia , in its native range in South America, suggesting that the two partners co-evolved ( Chen et al, 2005a ; Bontemps et al, 2010 ; dos Reis et al, 2010 ; Los Santos et al, 2018 ; Silva et al, 2018 ). In addition, the three main invasive Mimosa species ( M. diplotricha , C. Wright , M. pigra L., and M. pudica L., originated from the netotropics) in Assia, Australia and the Pacific region also preferred Beta-rhizobia for nodulation ( Chen et al, 2001 , 2003a , b , 2005b ; Liu et al, 2007 , 2011 , 2012 ; Parker et al, 2007 ; Elliott et al, 2009 ; Andrus et al, 2012 ; Klonowska et al, 2012 ; Gehlot et al, 2013 ; Melkonian et al, 2014 ), and they are closely related to the microsymbionts of Mimosa and related genera in their original regions ( Bournaud et al, 2013 ; da Silva et al, 2012 ; Mishra et al, 2012 ; Taulé et al, 2012 ; Platero et al, 2016 ; de Castro Pires et al, 2018 ).…”