%0 Journal Article %A Li, Wen-Jun %A Xu, Ping %A Schumann, Peter %A Zhang, Yu-Qin %A Pukall, Rüdiger %A Xu, Li-Hua %A Stackebrandt, Erko %A Jiang, Cheng-Lin %T Georgenia ruanii sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Yunnan (China), and emended description of the genus Georgenia %D 2007 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 57 %N 7 %P 1424-1428 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64749-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-positive, motile, short-rod-shaped strain, designated YIM 004T, was isolated from a forest-soil sample collected from Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China, and was investigated using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The isolate contained chemotaxonomic markers that corresponded to those of its phylogenetic neighbour, Georgenia muralis, i.e. it possessed peptidoglycan type A4α with lysine as the diagnostic cell-wall diamino acid, the predominant menaquinone was MK-8(H4) and the major fatty acid was ai-C15 : 0. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 72.9 mol%. Strain YIM 004T exhibited a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 97.3 % and a DNA–DNA relatedness value of 18 % with respect to G. muralis DSM 14418T. On the basis of the phenotypic and genotypic differences between the isolate and G. muralis, strain YIM 004T represents a novel species of the genus Georgenia, for which the name Georgenia ruanii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YIM 004T (=CCTCC AB 204065T=DSM 17458T=KCTC 19029T). In addition, an emended description of the genus Georgenia is presented. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64749-0