Rhizobium herbae

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yi, Hana, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Kiseong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum & Jeon, Soon Dong Lee and Che Ok, 2019, A report of 46 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 161-175 : 164

Description of Rhizobium herbae 17J44-22

Cells are gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and cream-colored after four days of incubation at 25°C on R2A agar. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, and glucose fermentation. Utilizes D- glucose, D- mannose, D- maltose, potassium gluconate and malic acid. Does not utilize L- arabinose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain 17J44-22 (= VYWGBAC000000379) was isolated from a soil sample, Jeju, Korea.