Novosphingobium pokkalii MMS

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report of 27 unrecorded bacterial species within the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from various sources of Korea in 2021, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 33-44 : 42

Description of Novosphingobium pokkalii MMS 21-M39

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated and rod shaped. Colonies grown on R2 A are pale yellow, circular, convex and entire. Oxidase activity is positive. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase and esculin hydrolysis; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, urease, gelatinase, β -galactosidase, and assimilation of D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malate, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain MMS21 -M39 (= NIBRBAC000508740) was isolated from a soil sample collected from Daejeon, Republic of Korea (36°19 ʹ 08.5 ʺ N 127°20 ʹ 19.9 ʺ E) .