Paracoccus rhizosphaerae

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Won-Yong, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung-Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Kim, Seung-Bum & Jeon, Che-Ok, 2021, A report of 35 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria in Korea, Journal of Species Research 10 (1), pp. 12-22 : 17

Description of Paracoccus rhizosphaerae KYW1736

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and coccus shaped. Colonies are circular, smooth, convex, opaque, and pale orange colored after 3 days of incubation at 25℃ on MA. Positive for nitrate reduction, esculin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for indole production, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase activities. D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannitol, D- maltose, potassium gluconate and malic acid are utilized. Does not utilize D- mannose, N -acetylglucosamine, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain KYW1736 (= NIBRBAC00050 3286) was isolated from a sea water sample, Gwangyang, Korea.