Sphingobium mellinum FS

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 : 18

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.