Rhizobium mesoamericanum GA

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Jeon, Che-Ok, Kim, Wonyong & Im, Myung Kyum Kim and Wan-Taek, 2019, Description of 42 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (4), pp. 351-364 : 359

Description of Rhizobium mesoamericanum GA 017

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, smooth, glistening, and cream color after 3 days on R2A at 30°C. Positive for nitrate reduction, urease, and β -galactosidase, and negative for esculin hydrolysis, arginine dihydrolase, indole production, and glucose fermentation in API 20NE. Utilizes D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, malic acid, and phenylacetic acid. But potassium gluconate, adipic acid, Capric acid and trisodium citrate are not utilized. Strain GA017 (= NIBRBAC000502565) has been isolated from soil, Daejeon, Korea.