Rhizobium lusitanum CR

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Chun, Jong-sik, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Im, Wan-Taek, 2015, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 4 (2), pp. 97-108 : 103

Description of Rhizobium lusitanum CR 1-2

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, flagellated, pigmented, and rod shaped. Colonies are round, smooth, drop like, and pale white colored after 5 days on R2A at 30 °C. Positive for urea, esculin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase and weakly positive for arginine dihydrolase in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, gelatinase and glucose fermentation. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, D-mannitol, potassium gluconate, malic acid and trisodium citrate are utilized. Does not utilize, capric acid, adipic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain CR1-2 (= NIBRBA0000113868) has been isolated from bracken root, Wonju, Korea.