@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000837, author = "Raju, Kathiravan and Sekar, Jegan and Vaiyapuri Ramalingam, Prabavathy", title = "Salinicola rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of the mangrove Avicennia marina L.", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2016", volume = "66", number = "2", pages = "1074-1079", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000837", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000837", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacterium, designated MSSRFH1T, was isolated from the rhizosphere of the mangrove, Avicennia marina, in Pichavaram, Tamil Nadu, India. Phylogenetic analysis, based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence of MSSRFH1T, indicated that it clustered in the genus Salinicola and was most closely related to Salinicola peritrichatus JCM18795T (96.7 % similarity). The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity was < 96.5 % with other strains of species of the genus Salinicola. The distinctiveness of strain MSSRFH1T was also shown by low similarities of its rpoD ( < 87 % similarity) and gyrB ( < 85 %) gene sequences with those of other members of the genus Salinicola. Strain MSSRFH1T could tolerate NaCl concentrations of up to 30 % (w/v). The main fatty acids of MSSRFH1T included C18 : 1ω7c, C16 : 0 and C19 : 0ω8c. The polar lipids present included diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, an unidentified amino lipid and unidentified phospholipids. Comparison of BOX-PCR fingerprints indicated that MSSRFH1T showed a unique DNA profile and its genomic G+C content was 64 mol%. On the basis of the data presented, strain MSSRFH1T represents a novel species of the genus Salinicola, for which the name Salinicola rhizosphaerae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MSSRFH1T ( = KCTC 32998T = NBRC 110222T).", }