Luteimonas mephitis BO

Kim, Yong-Seok, Yi, Hana, Kim, Myung Kyum, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Wonyong, Jeon, Che Ok, Kim, Seung-Bum, Im, Wan-Taek & Cha, Kiseong Joh and Chang-Jun, 2020, A report of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria isolated in 2018, Journal of Species Research 9 (4), pp. 346-361 : 356

Description of Luteimonas mephitis BO 171

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth and yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on R2 A at 25° C. Negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase and urease in API 20NE. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain BO 171 (= NIBRBAC000502391) was isolated from a cultivated soil sample, Suncheon, Jeollanam-do, Korea .