Methylobacterium gossipiicola HMF

Joung, Yochan, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Kim, Wonyong & Cho, Soon Dong Lee and Jang-Cheon, 2018, A report on 24 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea isolated in 2016, belonging to the orders Rhizobiales and Sphingomonadales in the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 7 (1), pp. 13-23 : 19

Description of Methylobacterium gossipiicola HMF 4666

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod or oval-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire, and pink-colored after 3 days of incubation on R2 A at 25° C. Positive for urease and cytochrome oxidase, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase in the API 20NE test. Only malic acid is utilized but other substrates in the API 20NE test strips are not utilized. Strain HMF4666 (= NIBRBAC000498445) was isolated from a wetland, Yongin, Gyeonggi, Korea.