Leifsonia kafniensis

Cho, Ja Young, Baek, Kiwoon, Kim, Eui-Jin, Han, Ji-Hye & Choi, Seoni Hwang and Ahyoung, 2020, A report on 14 unrecorded bacterial species isolated from the Nakdong River, South Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (2), pp. 77-84 : 83

Description of Leifsonia kafniensis 19SA03-T-4

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated, and curved rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, and pale-yellow colored after three days of incubation at 25°C on TSA. Positive for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase in API 20NE, but negative for indole production, arginine dihydrolase and urease activities. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, and trisodium citrate are utilized. Does not utilize D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain 19SA03-T-4 displays the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Leifsonia kafniensis KFC-22 T (99.6%). Strain 19SA03-T-4 (= NNIBR2019643BA4) was isolated from a freshwater sample of Nakdong River. The GenBank accession number of 16S rRNA gene sequence is MN540803.