%0 Journal Article %A Sun, Li-Na %A Zhang, Jun %A Gong, Fen-Fen %A Wang, Xiang %A Hu, Gang %A Li, Shun-Peng %A Hong, Qing %T Nocardioides soli sp. nov., a carbendazim-degrading bacterium isolated from soil under the long-term application of carbendazim %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_6 %P 2047-2052 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.057935-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X The taxonomic status of a carbendazim-degrading strain, mbc-2T, isolated from soil under the long-term application of carbendazim in China was determined by means of a polyphasic study. The cells were Gram-stain-positive, motile and rod-shaped. Strain mbc-2T grew optimally at pH 7.0, 30–35 °C and in the presence of 1 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain mbc-2T fell within the genus Nocardioides , forming a coherent cluster with the type strain of Nocardioides hankookensis , with which it exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 97.9 %. The chemotaxonomic properties of strain mbc-2T were consistent with those of the genus Nocardioides : the cell-wall peptidoglycan type was based on ll-2,6-diaminopimelic acid, the predominant menaquinone was MK-8 (H4) and the major fatty acid was iso-C16 : 0. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, unknown phospholipids and an unknown aminolipid. The DNA G+C content was 72 mol%. Strain mbc-2T exhibited DNA–DNA relatedness values of 12.5±1.5 %, 23.7±2.7 % and 26.3±3.2 % with respect to Nocardioides hankookensis DS-30T, Nocardioides aquiterrae GW-9T and Nocardioides pyridinolyticus OS4T. On the basis of the data obtained, strain mbc-2T represents a novel species of the genus Nocardioides , for which the name Nocardioides soli sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is mbc-2T ( = KACC 17152T = CCTCC AB 2012934T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.057935-0