Novosphingobium guangzhouense HMF

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yi, Hana, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Kiseong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum & Jeon, Soon Dong Lee and Che Ok, 2019, A report of 46 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 161-175 : 171

Description of Novosphingobium guangzhouense HMF 7644

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and pale yellow-colored after three days of incubation at 30℃ on R2A agar. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase activity. Utilizes D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid and trisodium citrate. Does not utilize D- mannitol, capric acid, adipic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain HMF7644 (= VYWGBAC000000184) was isolated from a tree sample, Seoul, Korea.