Rhodopseudomonas thermotolerans NA

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 : 40

Description of Rhodopseudomonas thermotolerans NA 30

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellat- ed and rod shaped. Colonies grown on R2 A are white, round, entire and flat. Oxidase activity is negative. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for urease and assimilation of D- glucose, L- arabinose, adipic acid, malate and phenylacetic acid; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase, β -galactosidase, and assimilation of D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid and trisodium citrate. Strain NA 30 (= NIBRBAC000508780) was isolated from a wetland sample collected from Seoul, Republic of Korea (37°34 ʹ 02.2 ʺ N 127°08 ʹ 59.1 ʺ E) .