%0 Journal Article %A Wang, Xiang %A Zhang, Chen-Fei %A Yu, Xing %A Hu, Gang %A Yang, Hong-Xing %A Zhang, Ying-Kun %A Zhu, Shi-Jun %A Jin, Wen %A Zhang, Hao %A Hong, Qing %T Sphingobacterium chuzhouense sp. nov., isolated from farmland soil %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 12 %P 4968-4974 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001454 %K Sphingobacterium chuzhouense sp. nov. %K Gram-staining-negative %K Farmland soil %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel Gram-staining-negative bacterium, designated DH-5T, was isolated from a farmland soil in Chuzhou, Anhui province, China. Cells of strain DH-5T were aerobic, non-motile, non-spore-forming and rod-shaped. The organism grew at 20–37 °C, pH 6.0–9.0 and with 0–5 % NaCl (w/v). The DNA G+C content was 42.8 mol%. The major fatty acids (>5 %) were iso-C15 : 0, summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and C16 : 0. The respiratory quinone was MK-7, and the major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphoglycolipid. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain DH-5T was a member of the genus Sphingobacterium and shared the highest similarity with Sphingobacterium gobiense H7T (96.0 %), followed by Sphingobacterium arenae H-12T (94.5 %). Strain DH-5T exhibited low DNA–DNA relatedness with S. gobiense H7T (35.1±1.4 %) and S. arenae H-12T (21.4±1.0 %). On the basis of phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic evidence, DH-5T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Sphingobacterium , for which the name Sphingobacterium chuzhouense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is DH-5T (=ACCC 19856T=KCTC 42746T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001454