Ensifer meliloti MMS

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 : 170

Description of Ensifer meliloti MMS 17-SY214

Cells are gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire, glistening, and beige-colored after three days of incubation at 30℃ on MA. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase activity. Utilizes D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose and malic acid. Does not utilize potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain MMS17-SY214 (= VYWGBAC000000226) was isolated from a soil sample, Gunsan, Korea.