Chromobacterium aquaticum ST

Jung, Yong-Taek, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi Nam, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung Bum & Yoon, Jung-Hoon, 2016, A report of 31 unrecorded bacterial species in South Korea belonging to the class Gammaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 5 (1), pp. 188-200 : 193

Description of Chromobacterium aquaticum ST 6-03

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, glistening, moist, and beige colored after 2 days of incubation on TSA at 30℃. Positive for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis and β-galactosidase, but negative for indole production, arginine dihydrolase and urease in API 20NE. D-Glucose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are utilized. Does not utilize L-arabinose and adipic acid. Strain ST 6-03 (= NIBRBA0000114184 ) has been isolated from plant roots sample, Daejeon, Korea .