@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.022772-0, author = "Bibi, Fehmida and Chung, Eu Jin and Yoon, Hwan Sik and Song, Geun Cheol and Jeon, Che Ok and Chung, Young Ryun", title = "Haloferula luteola sp. nov., an endophytic bacterium isolated from the root of a halophyte, Rosa rugosa, and emended description of the genus Haloferula", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2011", volume = "61", number = "8", pages = "1837-1841", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.022772-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.022772-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, endophytic bacterium, strain YC6886T, was isolated from the root of a halophyte, Rosa rugosa, which inhabits coastal areas of Namhae Island off the southern coast of Korea. Cells were non-motile, obligately aerobic rods and formed pale-yellow colonies. The isolate grew at 4–32 °C (optimum 25–28 °C) and at pH 6.5–9.5 (optimum pH 7.5) and grew optimally with 2–3 % (w/v) NaCl, but NaCl was not an absolute requirement for growth. Strain YC6886T produced yellow carotenoid pigments. Strain YC6886T exhibited the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Haloferula sargassicola MN1-1037T (97.4 %). Sequence similarities between strain YC6886T and other members of the genus Haloferula were 93.9–94.7 %. DNA–DNA relatedness between strain YC6886T and H. sargassicola KCTC 22202T and Haloferula rosea KCTC 22201T was 27 and 15 %, respectively. The major fatty acids were iso-C14 : 0, C16 : 0 and C16 : 1ω9c and minor components were C14 : 0, C18 : 0 and anteiso-C15 : 0. The major respiratory quinone was menaquinone 9 and the DNA G+C content was 58.5 mol%. The polar lipid profile was composed of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, an unknown phospholipid and an unknown phosphoglycolipid. On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, DNA–DNA hybridization and phylogenetic analysis, strain YC6886T represents a novel species in the genus Haloferula, for which the name Haloferula luteola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YC6886T ( = KCTC 22447T  = DSM 21608T). An emended description of the genus Haloferula is also presented.", }