A novel Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped strain designated PG04T was isolated from the rhizosphere of watermelon plants cultivated in Beijing, China. A polyphasic taxonomic study was performed on the new isolate. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity studies, isolate PG04T belonged clearly to the genus Hansschlegelia and was most closely related to Hansschlegelia zhihuaiae (97.3 % similarity to the type strain). The predominant respiratory quinone was ubiquinone 10 (Q-10) and the polar lipid profile was composed of the major lipids diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine. The major fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c (41.3 %), C19 : 0 cyclo ω8c (30.6 %) and C16 : 0 (19.1 %). The G+C content of the DNA was about 64.4 mol%. DNA–DNA hybridization experiments showed 34.4 % relatedness between strain PG04T and H. zhihuaiae DSM 18984T. The results of physiological and biochemical tests and differences in fatty acid profiles allowed clear phenotypic differentiation of strain PG04T from the most closely related species in the genus, H. zhihuaiae. Strain PG04T therefore represents a novel species within the genus Hansschlegelia, for which the name Hansschlegeliabeijingensis sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain PG04T ( = DSM 25481T = ACCC 05759T).
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This study was supported by the:
National Natural Science Foundation of China
(Award 30970083)
Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest
(Award 201203045)
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