Gluconobacter kondonii FR

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 : 11

Description of Gluconobacter kondonii FR 39A4

(= KACC 22388)

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod shaped (1.0-1.1 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 0.8 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; but does not assimilate L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetylglucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. According to API 50 CH test results, acid is produced from glycerol, erythritol, L- arabinose, D- ribose, D- xylose, D- galactose, D- glucose, D- fructose, D- mannose, D- melibiose, gentiobiose, D- lyxose, D- fucose and potassium 5-ketogluconate; but not produced from D- arabinose, L- xylose, D- adonitol, methyl- β -D- xylopyranoside, L- sorbose, L- rhamnose, dulcitol, inositol, 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- saccharose, D- trehalose, inulin, D- melezitose, D- raffinose, amidon, glycogen, xylitol, D- turanose, D- tagatose, L- fucose, D- arabitol, L- arabitol, potassium gluconate and potassium 2-ketogluconate. Strain FR39A4 (= KACC 22388) was isolated from persimmon fruit sampled from Cheongdo-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do. The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain FR39A4 is ON746626.