%0 Journal Article %A Jiang, Fan %A Xue, Xiuqing %A Qiu, Xia %A Zhang, Kundi %A Chang, Xulu %A Da, Xuyang %A Tang, Yali %A Fang, Chengxiang %A Guo, Youhao %A Peng, Fang %T Desertibacter xinjiangensis sp. nov., isolated from the soil of a Euphrates poplar forest, and emended description of the genus Desertibacter %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_11 %P 3690-3694 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.067009-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A pale pink and strictly aerobic bacterium, designated strain M71T, was isolated from the soil of a Euphrates poplar forest in Xingjiang, PR China. Cells of the strain were Gram-reaction-negative, rod-shaped and motile by means of a single polar flagellum. Growth occurred at 10–37 °C (optimum 30 °C), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum pH 7.0–8.0) and with 0–2.0 % NaCl (w/v, optimum 0 %). Phylogenetic analysis, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, indicated that strain M71T belongs to the genus Desertibacter in the family Rhodospirillaceae . The 16S rRNA gene sequence of this strain showed 96.2 % sequence similarity with the type strain of Desertibacter roseus 2262T. The respiratory quinone was Q-10 and the predominant cellular fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c (53.2 %), C16 : 1ω5c (11.0 %), summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c, 10.2 %) and C16 : 0 (8.5 %). The DNA G+C content was 71.2 mol% (HPLC). The strain contained phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine as the predominant polar lipids. On the basis of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, strain M71T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Desertibacter , for which the name Desertibacter xinjiangensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is M71T ( = CCTCC AB 209291T = CIP 110127T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.067009-0