Acinetobacterpuyangensis sp. nov., isolated from the healthy and diseased part of Populus ×euramericana canker bark Li, Yong and Piao, Chun-gen and Ma, Yu-chao and He, Wei and Wang, Hai-ming and Chang, Ju-pu and Guo, Li-min and Wang, Xi-zhuo and Xie, Shou-jiang and Guo, Min-wei,, 63, 2963-2969 (2013), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.047274-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Two Gram-negative, non-motile, rod-shaped strains, BQ4-1T and NHI3-2, isolated respectively from the healthy and diseased part of Populus ×euramericana canker bark, were characterized using a polyphasic approach. Chemotaxonomic characterization supported the inclusion of the two strains in the genus Acinetobacter , with genomic DNA G+C contents (42.5–43 mol%) within the range observed for this genus (38–47 mol%) and 9-octadecenoic acid (C18 : 1ω9c, 39.87 %), hexadecanoic acid (C16 : 0, 11.26 %) and summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1ω7c/C16 : 1ω6c, 18.90 %) as major fatty acids. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA, rpoB and gyrB gene sequences revealed that strains BQ4-1T and NHI3 did not cluster with any species with validly published names, and formed a distinct cluster with 99–100 % bootstrap support on three phylogenetic trees within the genus Acinetobacter . Acid was not produced from d-glucose, and haemolysis was not observed on agar media supplemented with sheep erythrocytes. On the basis of phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic characteristics, the two strains are considered to represent a novel species of the genus Acinetobacter , for which the name Acinetobacter puyangensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BQ4-1T ( = CFCC 10780T = JCM 18011T)., language=, type=