Mesorhizobium erdmanii BT

Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Seo, Taegun & Yoon, Che-Ok Jeon and Jung-Hoon, 2023, A report of 156 unrecorded bacterial species of Republic of Korea belonging to the phyla Acidobacteriota, Deinococcota, Actinomycetota, Bacillota, Bacteroidota, and Pseudomonadota isolated in 2022, Journal of Species Research 12 (4), pp. 374-414 : 402

Description of Mesorhizobium erdmanii BT 829

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, and rod shaped. Colonies are circular, slightly, convex, glistening, and white after incubation for 3 days on R2A at 25°C. In the API 20NE system, negative for cytochrome oxidase, esculin hydrolysis, indole production, glucose fermentation, nitrate reduction, arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase. Glucose, mannitol, mannose, arabinose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, capric acid, malic acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, phenylacetic acid, and potassium gluconate are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain BT829 (= NIBRBAC000509698) was isolated from a soil sample at Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.