Mesorhizobium plurifarium

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Won-Yong, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung-Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Kim, Seung-Bum & Jeon, Che-Ok, 2021, A report of 35 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 10 (1), pp. 12-22 : 19

Description of Mesorhizobium plurifarium G187

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod shaped. Colonies are circular, convex and cream colored after 3 days of incubation at 25℃ on R2A. Positive for urease activity, esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase activities. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase and gelatinase activities. D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetylglucosamine, and malic acid are utilized. Does not utilize D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain G187 (= NIBRBAC000503410) was isolated from a soil sample, Yeongju, Korea.