Rhizobium sphaerophysae

Shin, Seung Yeol, Jeon, Yihyun, Kang, Heeyoung, Srinivasan, Sathiyaraj, Kim, Myung Kyum, Kim, Dong-Uk & Song, Yochan Joung and Jaeho, 2024, A report on 36 unrecorded bacterial species isolated from Korean islands in 2023, Journal of Species Research 13 (3), pp. 293-305 : 300

Description of Rhizobium sphaerophysae M23HP171

The cells are Gram-stain-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. The colonies are circular, convex, entire, and beige-colored after incubating for 7 days on MA at 20℃. They are positive for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, urease, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for indole production, arginine dihydrolase, and gelatin hydrolysis in API 20NE. D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are utilized as sole carbon sources; but N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose and capric acid are not. Strain M23HP139 (= HNIBRBA6209) was isolated from a halophyte sample from Aphaedo Island (34°51 ʹ 32.7 ʺ N, 126°13 ʹ 54 ʺ E), Jeollanam-do, Korea. The GenBank accession number of the 16S rRNA gene sequence is OR863771 .