Bacillus asahii

Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Bae, Jin-Woo, Lee, Soon Dong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Yi, Hana, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Chi Nam Seong and Kiseong, 2019, A report of 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea within the classes Bacilli and Deinococci isolated from various sources, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 176-190 : 177-181

Description of Bacillus asahii 17J49-1

Cells are Gram-stain-positive and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and cream colored after incubation for four days on R2A at 25℃. Oxidase activity is positive. Aesculin is hydrolyzed. Enzyme activity for arginine dihydrolase and urease is positive. Enzyme activity for gelatinase and β -galactosidase is negative. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid and phenylacetic acid are assimilated. Capric acid and trisodium citrate are not assimilated. Nitrate is not reduced to nitrite. Indole is not produced and glucose is not fermented. Strain 17J49-1 (= NIBRBAC000501327)

was isolated from a soil sample, Jeju, Republic of Korea (33°30 ʹ 14.9 ʺ N 126°27 ʹ 55.5 ʺ E) .