%0 Journal Article %A Liu, Lei %A Hui, Nan %A Liang, Li-xiong %A Zhang, Xiao-xia %A Li, Lu-bin %A Sun, Qi-wu %T Sphingobacterium haloxyli sp. nov., an endophytic bacterium isolated from Haloxylon ammodendron stems in Kumtag desert %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 10 %P 3279-3284 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002982 %K Kumtag desert %K Sphingobacterium haloxyli %K Sphingobacterium %K Haloxylon ammodendron %K endophytic bacterium %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, aerobic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, bacterial strain, designated 5JN-11T, was isolated from Haloxylonammodendron stems in Kumtag desert, Xinjiang province, China. Strain 5JN-11T grew at salinities of 0–6 % (w/v; optimum 0–2 %), a pH of 7.0–9.0 (pH 7.0–8.0) and temperatures of 20–42 °C (28–30 °C). Based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, the strain was designated a member of the genus Sphingobacterium and the phylogenetic analysis showed that strain 5JN-11T shared the highest similarity to Sphingobacterium gobiense H7T, followed by Sphingobacterium chuzhouense DH-5T and Sphingobacterium arenae H-12T. The unfinished draft genome of strain 5JN-11T was 4.69 Mb. The G+C content of strain 5JN-11T was 42.8 mol%. The average nucleotide identity to S. gobiense H7T was 90.5 %. The respiratory quinone was MK-7, and the major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphoglycolipid. The predominant cellular fatty acids were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. On the basis of phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic evidence, strain 5JN-11T represents a novel species in the genus Sphingobacterium , for which the name Sphingobacterium haloxyli sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 5JN-11T (=ACCC 60072T=KCTC 62457T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002982