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Abstract

A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped bacterium was isolated and designated strain L6-8 during a study of endophytic bacterial communities in lesser duckweed (). Cells of strain L6-8 were motile with peritrichous flagella. The analysis of the nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain L6-8 was phylogenetically related to species of the genus . Its closest relatives were DN316 (97.6 %), Alt 505 (97.3 %) and J3-A127 (97.0 %). The sequence similarity analysis of housekeeping genes , , and showed low levels of sequence similarity (<91.5 %) between strain L6-8 and other species of the genus with validly published names. The pH range for growth was 4.0–9.0 (optimum 6.0–7.0), and the temperature range for growth was 20–45 °C (optimum 30 °C). Strain L6-8 tolerated NaCl up to 2 % (w/v) (optimum 1 % NaCl). The predominant components of cellular fatty acids were C cyclo ω8 (31.32 %), summed feature 8 (Cω7 and/or Cω6; 25.39 %) and C (12.03 %). The DNA G+C content of strain L6-8 was 60.4 mol% ( ). and were not amplified in strain L6-8. DNA–DNA relatedness between strain L6-8 and DN316, Alt505 and J3-A127 was between 11.2 and 18.3 %. Based on the sequence similarity analyses, phenotypic, biochemical and physiological characteristics and DNA–DNA hybridization, strain L6-8 could be readily distinguished from its closest relatives and represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is L6-8 ( = NBRC 109338 = BCC 55142).

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This study was supported by the:
  • King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
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