Agromyces aureus sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Salix caprea L. grown in a heavy-metal-contaminated soil Corretto, Erika and Antonielli, Livio and Sessitsch, Angela and Compant, Stéphane and Gorfer, Markus and Kuffner, Melanie and Brader, Günter,, 66, 3749-3754 (2016), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001260, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-reaction-positive, motile, yellow-pigmented and rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated AR33T, was isolated from the rhizosphere of Salix caprea L. growing in a former zinc/lead mining and processing site in Austria. A polyphasic approach was applied to determine its taxonomic position. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, and morphological and chemotaxonomic properties showed that strain AR33T belongs to the genus Agromyces . Strain AR33T had peptidoglycan type B2γ and the major menaquinones were MK-11, MK-10 and MK-12. The main branched-chain fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0. Strain AR33T showed catalase and oxidase activity and multiple heavy metal resistances to zinc, lead and cadmium. The DNA G+C content was 70.1 mol%. Levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with closely related recognized species of the genus Agromyces ranged between 98 and 99 %. However, DNA–DNA hybridization between strain AR33T and the type strains of three Agromyces species showed values lower than 42 % relatedness. Therefore, differential phenotypic characteristics together with DNA–DNA relatedness suggested that strain AR33T can be recognized as representing a distinct Agromyces species, for which the name Agromyces aureus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AR33T (=DSM 101731T=LMG 29235T)., language=, type=