Ralstonia pickettii BR

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 : 173

Description of Ralstonia pickettii BR 3409

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and ovoid rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, hard, and yellow-colored incubation at 37℃ on R2A. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and urease and gelatinase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase and β -galactosidase activity. Utilizes D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain BR3409 (= VYWGBAC000000172) was isolated from a butterfly (Hippoarchia autonoe) sample, Jeju, Korea.