Mesorhizobium huakuii BT

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 : 359

Description of Mesorhizobium huakuii BT 148

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and yellow color after 4 days on R2A at 25°C. Positive for nitrate reduction and esculin hydrolysis, while negative for arginine dihydrolase, indole production, urease, glucose fermentation, and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. Utilizes D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-maltose, N - acetyl-glucosamine, D-mannitol, and potassium gluconate. Does not utilize, adipic acid, capric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain BT148 (= NIBRBAC000502334) has been isolated from soil, Jeju, Korea.