Rhizobium giardinii RS

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Chun, Jong-sik, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Im, Wan-Taek, 2015, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 4 (2), pp. 97-108 : 102

Description of Rhizobium giardinii RS 3-4_B

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and short-rod shaped. Colonies are circular, entire, smooth, and white colored after 2 days on R2A at 30°C. Positive for urease, esculin hydrolysis, glucose fermentation and β -galactosidase in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase and gelatinase. Does not utilize L-arabinose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid but utilize D-glucose and D-mannose. Strain RS3-4_B (= NIBRBA0000113958) has been isolated from a ginseng soil, Anseong, Korea.