%0 Journal Article %A Cho, Hayoung %A Ahn, Jae-Hyung %A Weon, Hang-Yeon %A Joa, Jae-Ho %A Hong, Seung-Beom %A Seok, Soon-Ja %A Kim, Jeong-Seon %A Kwon, Soon-Wo %A Kim, Soo-Jin %T Parafilimonas rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum L.) %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 7 %P 2279-2283 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001945 %K Parafilimonas rhizosphaerae %K bacteria %K taxonomy %I Microbiology Society, %X A bacterial strain, designated T16E-198T, was isolated from the rhizosphere of tomato plant collected from a farm on Buyeo-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. The strain was aerobic, Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, non-flagellated and yellow-pigmented. Strain T16E-198T was mesophilic, catalase- and oxidase-positive and with flexirubin-type pigments. A phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain T16E-198T formed a lineage with Parafilimonas terrae 5GHs7-2T, sharing highest sequence similarity of 98.4 % with it and less than 93 % with all the other validly published species. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and iso-C15 : 1 G. The predominant menaquinone was MK-7. The polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, one unknown aminophospholipid, five unknown aminolipids and five unknown lipids. The DNA G+C content was 41.2 mol%. On the basis of the phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data presented, strain T16E-198T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Parafilimonas , for which the name Parafilimonas rhizosphaerae sp. nov. is proposed; the type strain is T16E-198T (=KACC 18786T=JCM 31601T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001945