Roseovarius indicus Ast

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Jeon, Che-Ok, Kim, Wonyong & Im, Myung Kyum Kim and Wan-Taek, 2019, Description of 42 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (4), pp. 351-364 : 360

Description of Roseovarius indicus Ast 32

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, and white col- or after 3 days on MA at 20°C. In API 20NE, positive for nitrate reduction, arginine dihydrolase and urease but negative for glucose fermentation, indole production, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, and gelatinase. Does not utilize 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 Ast32 (= NIBRBAC000502475) has been isolated from a seaweed sample, Taean, Korea.