%0 Journal Article %A Madhaiyan, Munusamy %A Poonguzhali, Selvaraj %T Methylobacterium pseudosasicola sp. nov. and Methylobacterium phyllostachyos sp. nov., isolated from bamboo leaf surfaces %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_7 %P 2376-2384 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.057232-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Two strains of Gram-negative, methylotrophic bacteria, isolated because of their abilities to promote plant growth, were subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. The isolates were strictly aerobic, motile, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, non-spore-forming rods. The chemotaxonomic characteristics of the isolates included the presence of C18 : 1ω7c as the major cellular fatty acid. The DNA G+C contents of strains BL36T and BL47T were 69.4 and 69.8 mol%, respectively. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of strains BL36T and BL47T placed them under the genus Methylobacterium, with the pairwise sequence similarity between them and the type strains of closely related species ranging from 97.2 to 99.0 %. On the basis of their phenotypic and phylogenetic distinctiveness and the results of DNA–DNA hybridization analysis, the isolates represent two novel species within the genus Methylobacterium , for which the names Methylobacterium pseudosasicola sp. nov. (type strain BL36T = NBRC 105203T = ICMP 17621T) and Methylobacterium phyllostachyos sp. nov. (type strain BL47T = NBRC 105206T = ICMP 17619T) are proposed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.057232-0