Asaia platycodi AF

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, Report of seven unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the family Acetobacteraceae, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 7-14 : 9

Description of Asaia platycodi AF 15C2

(= KACC 22051)

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, non-pigmented and rod (0.9-1.1 μm × 1.6-2.2 μm) after three days incubation on YPM medium at 28℃. Colonies are round, raised and brownish beige colored with a diameter of 1.0 mm. Catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Positive for glucose fermentation and aesculin hydrolysis, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatin hydrolysis. According to API 20 NE test results, it assimilates D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetylglucosamine and potassium gluconate, but does not assimilate D- maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. According to API 50 CH test results, acid is produced from glycerol, erythritol, D- arabinose, L- arabinose, D- ribose, D- xylose, L- xylose, D- adonitol, D- galactose, D- glucose, D- fructose, D- mannose, L- sorbose, inositol, D- melibiose, D- saccharose, D- raffinose, xylitol, gentiobiose, D- lyxose, D- tagatose, D- fucose, L- fucose, D- arabitol and L- arabitol, but not produced from methyl- β - D- xylopyranoside, L- rhamnose, dulcitol, D- mannitol, D- sorbitol, methyl- α -D- mannopyranoside, methyl- α -D- glucopyranoside, N -acetylglucosamine, amygdalin, arbutin, esculin ferric citrate, salicin, D- cellobiose, D- maltose, D- lactose, D- trehalose, inulin, D- melezitose, amidon, glycogen, D- turanose, potassium gluconate, potassium 2-ketogluconate and potassium 5-ketogluconate. Strain AF15C2 (= KACC 22051) was isolated from plant of Isodon inflexus sampled from Jeongeup-si, Jeollabuk-do. The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain AF15C2 is ON746593.