@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000448, author = "Zhang, Hao and Zhang, Jing and Song, Man and Cheng, Ming-gen and Wu, Ya-dong and Guo, Su-hui and Li, Qiang and Hong, Qing and Huang, Xing", title = "Pedobacter nanyangensis sp. nov., isolated from herbicide-contaminated soil", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2015", volume = "65", number = "Pt_10", pages = "3517-3521", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000448", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000448", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, non-spore-forming, motile, rod-shaped bacterium, designated Q-4T, was isolated from a herbicide-contaminated soil sample in Nanyang, Henan province, China. Strain Q-4T grew optimally in the LB medium without NaCl supplement at a pH range of 6.0–7.0 and a temperature of 30 °C. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain Q-4T was most closely related to ‘Pedobacter zeaxanthinifaciens’ TDMA-5 (97.4 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), followed by Pedobacter xixiisoli S27T (95.8 %). The genomic DNA G+C content of strain Q-4T was 41.8 mol%. MK-7 was the major respiratory quinone. Phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphoaminolipid were the major polar lipids. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, C16 : 1ω6c and/or C16 : 1ω7c (summed feature 3) and C16 : 1ω7c/C16 : 1ω6c (summed feature 3). Strain Q-4T showed low DNA–DNA relatedness with ‘P. zeaxanthinifaciens’ TDMA-5 (21.4 ± 0.6 %). Physiological and biochemical characteristics are able to distinguish strain Q-4T from the most closely related species of the genus Pedobacter. On the basis of genotypic and phenotypic data, strain Q-4T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Pedobacter, for which the name Pedobacter nanyangensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Q-4T ( = KCTC 42442T = ACCC 19798T).", }