%0 Journal Article %A Zhao, Guo-Yan %A Zhao, Li-Ya %A Xia, Zhi-Jie %A Zhu, Jin-Lei %A Liu, Di %A Liu, Chun-Yue %A Chen, Xiu-Lan %A Zhang, Yu-Zhong %A Zhang, Xi-Ying %A Dai, Mei-Xue %T Salinicola tamaricis sp. nov., a heavy-metal-tolerant, endophytic bacterium isolated from the halophyte Tamarix chinensis Lour %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 6 %P 1813-1819 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001868 %K endophytic bacterium %K heavy-metal tolerant %K moderately halophilic %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, strain F01T, was isolated from leaves of Tamarix chinensis Lour. The isolate grew optimally at 30 °C, at pH 7.0 and with 5.0 % (w/v) NaCl, and showed a high tolerance to manganese, lead, nickel, ferrous ions and copper ions. The major fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c and C16 : 0, and the predominant respiratory quinone was Q-9. Polar lipids were dominated by diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, unidentified aminoglycolipids and phospholipids. The DNA G+C content was 65.8 %. Based on multilocus phylogenetic analysis, strain F01T belonged to the genus Salinicola , with highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Salinicola peritrichatus CGMCC 1.12381T (97.7 %). The level of DNA–DNA hybridization between strain F01T and closely related Salinicola strains was well below 70 %. According to the phenotypic, genetic and chemotaxonomic data, strain F01T is considered to represent a novel species in the genus Salinicola , for which the name Salinicola tamaricis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is F01T (=CCTCC AB 2015304T=KCTC 42855T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001868