Paenibacillus eucommiae

Jang, Jun Hwee, Sathiyaraj, Gayathri, Sathiyaraj, Srinivasan, Lee, Jin Woo, Kim, Ju-Young, Maeng, Soohyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Lee, Eun young & Kim, Myung Suk Kang and Myung Kyum, 2018, A report of eight unrecorded radiation resistant bacterial species in Korea isolated in 2018, Journal of Species Research 7 (3), pp. 210-221 : 217

Description of Paenibacillus eucommiae 18 JY35-8

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on R2A at 25℃. In API 20NE system, positive for arginine dihydrolase, urease, β-galactosidase, D-maltose, and potassium gluconate. Weak positive for trisodium citrate. Negative for the reduction of nitrates (NO 3) to nitrite (NO 2 -), nitrates (NO 3) to nitrogen (N 2), D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, adipic acid, malic acid, indole production on tryptophan, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, capric acid, and phenylacetic acid.

In API 32GN system, positive for D-ribose, itaconic acid, L-alanine, L-rhamnose, inositol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-saccharose (sucrose), D-maltose, sodium acetate, lactic acid, L-serine, D-melibiose, D-sorbitol, trisodium citrate, L-histidine, potassium 2-ketogluconate, 3-hydroxybutyric acid, L-serine, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, and L-proline. Negative for suberic acid, sodium malonate, potassium 5-ketogluconate, glycogen, 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, D-mannitol, D-glucose, salicin, D-fucose, L-arabinose, propionic acid, capric acid and valeric acid. Cells showed resistance to UV radiation. Strain 18JY35-8 (= NIBRBAC0000116026) was isolat- ed from a soil sample in Korea.