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Abstract
A salt- and alkali-tolerant actinomycete strain, YIM 90018T, was isolated from a saline and alkaline soil sample collected from Qinghai, China. Aerial hyphae of strain YIM 90018T were only produced on YIM 82 agar. Vegetative hyphae were well developed and did not fragment. Straight or flexuous (rectiflexibiles) spore chains were produced. The isolate grew well with 25 % (w/v) MgCl2 . 6H2O and at pH 10. All of these characters indicated that strain YIM 90018T belonged to the genus Streptomyces. On the basis of phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence, DNA–DNA hybridization and phenotypic characteristics, strain YIM 90018T could be differentiated from all recognized species of the genus Streptomyces. A novel species, Streptomyces sparsus sp. nov., is proposed, with strain YIM 90018T ( = CCTCC AA204019T = DSM 41858T) as the type strain.
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award 30560001 and 30900002)
- International Cooperative Key Project of Ministry of Science and Technology (Award 2006DFA33550)
- Talents in University and the ‘Zentrum für Marine Wirkstoffe’
- Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Verkehr des Landes Schleswig-Holstein