Loktanella rosea ZOD

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2021, A report of 23 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 191-200 : 197

Description of Loktanella rosea ZOD 2-5

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented and rod-shaped. Colonies are pink colored, opaque, circular, entire, convex, and smooth after 3 days of incubation on MA at 25℃. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase in API 20NE; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatinase. Does not utilize D-mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate D-glucose, L-arabinose, Dmannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose and phenylacetic acid. Strain ZOD2-5 (= NIBRBAC000498479) was isolated from seagrass, Seosan, Chungnam, Korea.