%0 Journal Article %A Xu, Lian %A Sun, Ji-Quan %A Wang, Li-Juan %A Gao, Zhi-Wei %A Sun, Li-Zhu %A Wu, Xiao-Lei %T Sphingobacterium alkalisoli sp. nov., isolated from a saline-alkaline soil %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 6 %P 1943-1948 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001895 %K Sphingobacterium alkalisoli sp. nov. %K Saline-alkaline soil %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-staining-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming bacterium designated Y3L14T was isolated from the saline-alkaline soil of a farmland, Inner Mongolia, northern China. Strain Y3L14T could grow at 10–40 °C (optimally at 30 °C), pH 6.0–10.0 (optimally at pH 8.0), and in the presence of 0–6.0 % (w/v) NaCl (optimally with 0–2.0 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene and DNA gyrase subunit B (gyrB) gene sequences revealed that strain Y3L14T clustered with strains belonging to the genus Sphingobacterium , sharing the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Sphingobacterium lactis WCC 4512T (94.99 %). Its major cellular fatty acids contained iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and summed feature 3 (iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1ω7c). Menaquinone-7 (MK-7) was the only isoprenoid quinone. Strain Y3L14T contained phosphatidylethanolamine, sphingophospholipid, two unknown phospholipids and three unknown lipids as the major polar lipids. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain Y3L14T was 36.0 mol%. Based on the phenotypic, phylogenetic and genotypic characteristics, strain Y3L14T represents a novel species within the genus Sphingobacterium , for which Sphingobacterium alkalisoli sp. nov. is proposed; the type strain is Y3L14T (=CGMCC 1.15782T=KCTC 52379T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001895