Sphingomonas rosea JJ

Kim, Kyung Hyun, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo & Jeon, Wan-Taek Im and Che Ok, 2017, A report of 31 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 129-140 : 139

Description of Sphingomonas rosea JJ 13

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, smooth, convex, and orange red-colored after 5 days of incubation at 25°C on R2A agar. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and urease activity. D-Glucose and D-maltose are utilized. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activities. Does not utilize L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain JJ13 (= NIBRBAC 000497933) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Changwon, Korea.