Methylobacterium indicum BT

Hwang, Chi Young, Cho, Eui-Sang, Jung, Dong-Hyun, Lee, Ki-Eun, Cha, In-Tae & Seo, Won-Jae Chi and Myung-Ji, 2023, A report of 27 unrecorded bacterial species within the class Alphaproteobacteria isolated from various sources of Korea in 2021, Journal of Species Research 12, pp. 33-44 : 36

Description of Methylobacterium indicum BT 721

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, flagellated and rod shaped. Colonies grown on R2 A are pink, circular, raised and opaque. Oxidase activity is negative. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for indole production, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, β -galactosidase, and assimilation of potassium gluconate and capric acid; but negative for nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and assimilation of D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, adipic acid, malate, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain BT 721 (= NIBRBAC000508870) was isolat- ed from a soil sample collected from Samcheok, Republic of Korea (37°13 ʹ 02.5 ʺ N 129°03 ʹ 52.9 ʺ E) .