Neobacillus soli BT

Lee, Jae Kyeong, Baek, Ju Hye, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum & Jeon, Taegun Seo and Che Ok, 2023, A report of 21 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the phyla Bacillota and Verrucomicrobiota in Korea, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 15-22 : 20

Description of Neobacillus soli BT 168

Cells are Gram-staining-positive short rods without a flagellum. Colonies are curved and cream-colored after three days of incubation at 25℃ on R2 A agar. Positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, and gelatinase and β-galactosidase activities. Negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase and urease activities. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N- acetylglucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain BT 168 (= NIBRBAC000508866) was isolated from soil from Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (37°44′22.6″N 127°01′ 25.6″E) .