Description of Sphingobium mellinum FS 72

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and yellow colored after 3 days of incubation at 25℃ on R2A. Positive for esculin hydrolysis. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activities. D- Glucose is utilized. Does not utilize L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetylglucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain FS72 (= NIBRBAC000503299) was isolated from a soil sample, Suncheon, Korea.