Description of Microbacterium pumilum MAT 14

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular and orange­colored after 2 days on MA at 25℃. Positive reactions are obtained for glucose fermentation, urease, esculin hydrolysis and β-galactosidase in API 20NE, and negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase and gelatinase. Does not utilize D­glucose, L­arabinose, D­mannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain MAT14 (= NIBRBA0000113972) was isolated from a forest soil sample, Gwanak Mountain, Seoul, Korea .