Methylobacterium tardum

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2017, Description of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 141-153 : 149

Description of Methylobacterium tardum LB-3

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, pigmented and rod­shaped. Colonies are punctiform, sticky and pink colored after 3 days of incubation on TSA at 30° C. Strain LB­3 negative for nitrate reduction, β ­galactosidase, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis, indole production, urease and gelatinase in API 20NE. Does not utilize D­mannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid, capric acid and adipic acid but utilizes D­glucose and L­arabinose. Strain LB­3 (= NIBRBA0000114803 ) has been isolated from fresh water pond, Daejeon, Korea .