Sphingomonas humi MT

Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubair, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop & Im, Che-Ok Jeon and Wan-Taek, 2017, Description of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 6 (2), pp. 141-153 : 149

Description of Sphingomonas humi MT 2F 6

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, non­motile, non­spore­forming, non­flagellated and pigmented rods. Colonies grown on R2A agar medium for 2 days are circular, raised, entire and pink­colored. In API 20NE, negative for β ­galactosidase, esculin, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease and gelatinase, while positive for nitrate reduction. Does not utilize D­mannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid, trisodium citrate, D­maltose, malic acid and D­glucose. Strain MT2F 6 (= NIBRBA0000114783) has been isolated from a timber sample, Wando, Korea.