Bacillus fordii MMS

Park, Eun-Hee, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Seung-Bum & Cha, Wan-Taek Im and Chang-Jun, 2021, Report of 20 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the phylum Firmicutes during surveys in 2020, Journal of Species Research 10 (3), pp. 217-226 : 219

Description of Bacillus fordii MMS 20-LR456

Cells are Gram-staining-positive, non-flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire and yellow-colored after 2 days of incubation on LA at 45℃. Esculin hydrolysis is weakly positive and negative reactions are obtained for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and β -galactosidase in API 20NE. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, capric acid and adipic acid. Weakly utilizes potassium gluconate, trisodium citrate and phenylacetic acid. Strain MMS20 -LR456 (= NIBRBAC00050 6166) was isolated from a soil sample, Suncheon , Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea (34°54′18.8″N, 127°30′49.7″ E) .