Ornithinibacillus salinisoli sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saline-alkali soil Gan, Longzhan and Zhang, Heming and Long, Xiufeng and Tian, Jiewei and Wang, Zhikuan and Zhang, Yuqin and Dai, Yumei and Tian, Yongqiang,, 68, 769-775 (2018), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002580, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A taxonomic study was performed on strain LCB256T, which was isolated from a saline-alkali soil sample taken from northwestern China. Cells of strain LCB256T were Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped and grew at 3–17 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum 10–15 %), 10–52 °C (optimum 25–30 °C) and pH 7.0–9.0 (optimum 8.0). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain LCB256T was most closely related to the two genera of Ornithinibacillus and Oceanobacillus , showing highest sequence similarity to Oceanobacillus limi KCTC 13823T (97.8 %) and Ornithinibacillus bavariensis WSBC 24001T (97.2 %). The peptidoglycan amino acid type was found to be A4β and the major respiratory quinone was determined to be MK-7. The polar lipid profile of strain LCB256T contained diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified phospholipid and two unidentified aminolipids. The dominant cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C15 : 0. The G+C content of genomic DNA was 39.3 mol%. DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain LCB256T and Ornithinibacillus halophilus KCTC 13822T and Oceanobacillus limi KCTC 13823T were 46.2 and 34.8 %, respectively. Based on this polyphasic taxonomic study, a novel species of the genus Ornithinibacillus , Ornithinibacillus salinisoli sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LCB256T (=CGMCC 1.15809T=KCTC 33862T)., language=, type=