Phytobacter diazotrophicus CBA

Lee, Changsu, Kim, Joon Yong, Kim, Yeon Bee, Kim, Juseok, Ahn, Seung Woo & Roh, Hye Seon Song and Seong Woon, 2020, A report of 37 unrecorded anaerobic bacterial species isolated from the Geum River in South Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (2), pp. 105-116 : 114

Description of Phytobacter diazotrophicus CBA 7540

Cells are facultative anaerobic, Gram-stain-negative, non-pigmented, and short rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, and entire after incubation for three days on DSMZ medium No. 1451 at 25℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for arginine dihydrolase and urease. Utilizes D- mannitol, potassium gluconate, malic acid, and trisodium citrate. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain CBA7540 (= NNIBR2019644BA40) was isolated from a freshwater sample, Dong-gu, Daejeon, Korea.