Sphingobium yanoikuyae CR

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Chun, Jong-sik, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Im, Wan-Taek, 2015, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 4 (2), pp. 97-108 : 106

Description of Sphingobium yanoikuyae CR 2-3

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­flagellated, pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are round, smooth, convex, and orange colored after 5 days incubated on R2A at 30°C. Weakly positive for nitrate reduction and positive for esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. Negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase. Does not utilize D-mannose, D-mannitol, capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid. Utilized D-glucose, L-arabinose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid and trisodium citrate. Strain CR2-3 (= NIBRBA0000113867) has been isolated from a vegetable root sample, Wonju, Korea.