Sphingomonas gei BT

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 : 43

Description of Sphingomonas gei BT 753

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-flagellated and rod shaped. Colonies grown on R2 A agar are bright yellow, circular, convex, glistening and smooth. Oxidase activity is positive. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for gelatinase, β -galactosidase, and assimilation of D- glucose, D- mannitol, D- maltose and potassium gluconate; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and assimilation of L- arabinose, D- mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, capric acid, adipic acid, malate, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain BT 753 (= NIBRBAC000508876) was isolated from a soil sample collected from Jeju, Republic of Korea (33°26 ʹ 05 ʺ N 126°41 ʹ 20 ʺ E) .