Alishewanella agri sp. nov., isolated from landfill soil Kim, Min-Soo and Jo, Seon Kyung and Roh, Seong Woon and Bae, Jin-Woo,, 60, 2199-2203 (2010), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.011684-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Strain BL06T was isolated from landfill soil in Pohang, Korea. Strain BL06T is Gram-negative, aerobic, non-motile and rod-shaped. For growth, the NaCl range is 0–6 % (w/v), the temperature range is 10–44 °C and the pH range is 5.5–12.0. Based on the 16S rRNA gene and gyrase B (gyrB) gene sequences, phylogenetic analysis showed that strain BL06T is associated with the genus Alishewanella and related closely to the type strains of Alishewanella species (98.8 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Alishewanella aestuarii, 98.7 % to Alishewanella fetalis and 98.5 % to Alishewanella jeotgali). Physiological and biochemical tests verified that strain BL06T is genotypically and phenotypically different from previously described species in the genus Alishewanella. DNA–DNA hybridization experiments showed that relatedness between the genomic DNA of strain BL06T and type strains of other Alishewanella species is <41 %. These findings suggest strongly that the strain represents a novel species, despite high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain BL06T and related strains. Therefore, strain BL06T (=KCTC 22400T=JCM 15597T) is proposed to represent a novel species in the genus Alishewanella, named Alishewanella agri sp. nov., language=, type=