Description of Rhodanobacter spathiphylli Gsoil 3009

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, nonpigmented and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, glistening and yellow colored after incubation for 3 days on R 2A at 25℃. Positive for nitrate reduction and esculin hydrolysis, but negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. D-Glucose, D-mannose, N-acetyl-glucosamine and D-maltose are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not L-arabinose, D-mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain Gsoil 3009 (= NIBRBAC000498590) was isolated from a ginseng field soil sample, Anseong, Korea.