RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Madhaiyan, Munusamy A1 Poonguzhali, Selvaraj A1 Saravanan, Venkatakrishnan Sivaraj A1 Pragatheswari, Dhandapani A1 Duraipandiyan, Veeramuthu A1 Al-Dhabi, Naif Abdullah A1 Santhanakrishnan, PalaniYR 2016 T1 Paenibacillus methanolicus sp. nov., a xylanolytic, methanol-utilizing bacterium isolated from the phyllosphere of bamboo (Pseudosasa japonica) JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 66 IS 11 SP 4362 OP 4366 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001356 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Strain BL24T, isolated from bamboo phyllosphere collected in Coimbatore, India, was studied for taxonomic classification. Cells of the strain were aerobic, Gram-stain-positive, motile, catalase- and oxidase-positive rods and grew on media containing methanol. In 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain BL24Tshowed the highest sequence similarities with Paenibacillus phyllosphaeraeKACC 11473T (97.8 %) and Paenibacillus sacheonensisSY01 (95.1 %). DNA–DNA hybridization with P. phyllosphaerae KACC 11473T, phylogenetically the most closely related species, was 21.6 %; this value showed that strain BL24Tbelonged to a different species. The cell-wall peptidoglycan was found to possess meso-diaminopimelic acid and the G+C content of genomic DNA was 52.1 mol %. It contained menaquinone (MK)-7 as the predominant respiratory quinone and the major cellular fatty acids are C16 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C16 : 0, and anteiso-C17 : 0. Based on the molecular and chemotaxonomic markers and physiological properties, strain BL24T (=NRRL B-51698T=CCM 7577T) is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus , for which the name Paenibacillus methanolicusis proposed., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001356