%0 Journal Article %A Corretto, Erika %A Antonielli, Livio %A Sessitsch, Angela %A Compant, Stéphane %A Gorfer, Markus %A Kuffner, Melanie %A Brader, Günter %T Agromyces aureus sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Salix caprea L. grown in a heavy-metal-contaminated soil %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 9 %P 3749-3754 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001260 %K Salix caprea %K Agromyces aureus sp. nov. type strain AR33T %K heavy metals %K rhizosphere %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-reaction-positive, motile, yellow-pigmented and rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated AR33T, was isolated from the rhizosphere of Salix caprea L. growing in a former zinc/lead mining and processing site in Austria. A polyphasic approach was applied to determine its taxonomic position. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, and morphological and chemotaxonomic properties showed that strain AR33T belongs to the genus Agromyces . Strain AR33T had peptidoglycan type B2γ and the major menaquinones were MK-11, MK-10 and MK-12. The main branched-chain fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0. Strain AR33T showed catalase and oxidase activity and multiple heavy metal resistances to zinc, lead and cadmium. The DNA G+C content was 70.1 mol%. Levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with closely related recognized species of the genus Agromyces ranged between 98 and 99 %. However, DNA–DNA hybridization between strain AR33T and the type strains of three Agromyces species showed values lower than 42 % relatedness. Therefore, differential phenotypic characteristics together with DNA–DNA relatedness suggested that strain AR33T can be recognized as representing a distinct Agromyces species, for which the name Agromyces aureus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AR33T (=DSM 101731T=LMG 29235T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001260