Altererythrobacter indicus IMCC

Joung, Yochan, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Kim, Wonyong & Cho, Soon Dong Lee and Jang-Cheon, 2018, A report on 24 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea isolated in 2016, belonging to the orders Rhizobiales and Sphingomonadales in the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 7 (1), pp. 13-23 : 20

Description of Altererythrobacter indicus IMCC 25649

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, entire, and yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on MA at 20° C. Positive for gelatinase but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, and cytochrome oxidase in the API 20NE test. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol and trisodium citrate are utilized but N -acetylglucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid and phenylacetic acid are not utilized. Strain IMCC25649 (= NIBRBAC000498548) was isolated from a plant root sample collected at Sido , Ongjin, Incheon, Korea.