%0 Journal Article %A Wang, Jia %A Chen, Mei-hong %A Lv, Ying-ying %A Jiang, Ya-wen %A Qiu, Li-hong %T Edaphobacter dinghuensis sp. nov., an acidobacterium isolated from lower subtropical forest soil %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 1 %P 276-282 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000710 %I Microbiology Society, %X An aerobic bacterium, designated DHF9T, was isolated from a soil sample collected from the lower subtropical forest of Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong Province, PR China. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, short rods that multiplied by binary division. Strain DHF9T was an obligately acidophilic, mesophilic bacterium capable of growth at pH 3.5–5.5 (optimum pH 4.0) and at 10–33 °C (optimum 28–33 °C). Growth was inhibited at NaCl concentrations above 2.0 % (w/v). The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and C16 : 1ω7c. The polar lipids consist of phosphatidylethanolamine, two unidentified aminolipids, two unidentified phospholipids, two unidentified polar lipids and an unidentified glycolipid. The DNA G+C content was 57.7 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the strain belongs to the genus Edaphobacter in subdivision 1 of the phylum Acidobacteria, with the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 97.0 % to Edaphobacter modestus Jbg-1T. Based on phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and physiological analyses, it is proposed that strain DHF9T represents a novel species of the genus Edaphobacter, named Edaphobacter dinghuensis sp. nov. The type strain is DHF9T ( = DSM 29920T = CGMCC 1.12997T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000710