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A brown-coloured bacterium was isolated from photoheterotrophic (benzoate) enrichments of flooded paddy soil from Andhra Pradesh, India. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain JA2 was shown to belong to the class , related to (99 % sequence similarity). Cells of strain JA2 are Gram-negative, motile rods with monopolar single flagella. The strain contained bacteriochlorophyll and most probably the carotenoids spirilloxanthin and sphaeroidene, but did not have internal membrane structures. Intact cells had absorption maxima at 378, 488, 520, 590, 802 and 884 nm. No growth factors were required. Strain JA2 grew on benzoate, 2-aminobenzoate (anthranilate), 4-aminobenzoate, 4-hydroxybenzoate, phthalate, phenylalanine, -cinnamate, benzamide, salicylate, cyclohexanone, cyclohexanol and cyclohexane-2-carboxylate as carbon sources and/or electron donors. The DNA G+C content was 74.9 mol%. Based on DNA–DNA hybridization studies, 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and morphological and physiological characteristics, strain JA2 is different from representatives of other photosynthetic species of the and was recognised as representing a novel species, for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JA2 (=ATCC BAA-35=JCM 13220=MTCC 7087).

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