%0 Journal Article %A Raj, P. Shalem %A Sasikala, Ch. %A Ramaprasad, E. V. V. %A Subhash, Y. %A Busse, H.-J. %A Schumann, P. %A Ramana, Ch. V. %T Chryseomicrobium amylolyticum sp. nov., isolated from a semi-arid tropical soil, and emended descriptions of the genus Chryseomicrobium and Chryseomicrobium imtechense %D 2013 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 63 %N Pt_7 %P 2612-2617 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.044552-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A rod-shaped, non-motile, Gram-stain-positive, catalase-positive, starch-hydrolysing strain, JC16T, was isolated from a semi-arid tropical soil from India. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain JC16T clustered with the type species of the genus Chryseomicrobium, Chryseomicrobium imtechense MW 10T, a member of the family Planococcaceae within the phylum Firmicutes with 99.3 % sequence similarity. Major (>10 %) fatty acids of strain JC16T were iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0. Minor (<10 and >1 %) amounts of C16 : 0, iso-C14 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0, iso-C17 : 1ω10c and C16 : 1ω11c are present in strain JC16T. Polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phospholipids (PL2–4), aminolipids (AL1, 2) and an unknown lipid. Cell wall peptidoglycan was of the type l-Orn–d-Glu. The quinone system was composed of MK-7, MK-8 and MK-6. Genomic DNA G+C content of strain JC16T was 57.6 mol%. Distinct physiological, chemotaxonomic and genotypic differences (37 % reassociation based on DNA–DNA hybridization) from Chryseomicrobium imtechense MW 10T support the classification of strain JC16T as a representative of a novel species in the genus Chryseomicobium, for which the name Chryseomicrobium amylolyticum sp. nov. (type strain JC16T = DSM 23442T = NBRC 105215T) is proposed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.044552-0