Phycicoccus ginsenosidimutans AS

Han, Ji-Hye, Baek, Kiwoon, Hwang, Seoni & Lee, Yoon Jong Nam and Mi-Hwa, 2020, A report of 35 unrecorded bacterial species isolated from sediment in Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (4), pp. 362-374 : 369

Description of Phycicoccus ginsenosidimutans AS 4-17

Cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated, and coccus-shaped. Colonies grown on Reasoner’s 2A agar ( R2 A) are circular, convex, smooth, and ivory colored after incubation 2-3 days at 20° C. Positive for reduction of nitrates, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase, but negative for oxidase, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, and urease. D-Glucose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, and malic acid are utilized as sole carbon sources, but not L-arabinose, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain AS 4-17 (= NNIBR2016301 BA21) was isolated from sediment of the Nakdonggang River, Andong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea. The GenBank accession number of 16S rRNA gene sequence is KY012263 .