Mesorhizobium qingshengii Gsoil 1111

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 : 171

Description of Mesorhizobium qingshengii Gsoil 1111

Cells are gram-staining-negative, flagellated, and ovoid-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, glistening, and white-colored after two days of incubation at 30℃ on R2A agar. Positive for esculin hydrolysis. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, and urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Utilizes D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, adipic acid, malic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Does not utilize D- maltose, capric acid, and trisodium citrate. Strain Gsoil 1111 (= VYWGBAC000000012) was isolated from a soil sample, Pocheon, Korea.