RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Xia, Fan A1 Cai, Yu-min A1 Chen, Dong-xia A1 Qiu, Li-hongYR 2017 T1 Edaphobacter acidisoli sp. nov., an acidobacterium isolated from forest soil JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 67 IS 10 SP 4260 OP 4265 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002300 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Two strains, 4G-K17T and 4G-K15, were isolated from forest soil from the Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong Province, PR China (112° 31′ E 23° 10′ N). The cells of the two strains were Gram-stain-negative, aerobic and non-motile short rods that multiplied by binary division. Strains 4G-K17T and 4G-K15 were obligately acidophilic, mesophilic bacteria capable of growth at pH 3.0–7.0 (optimum 4.0–5.5 and 3.5–5.5, respectively), temperature 12–42 °C (optimum 28 °C) and NaCl concentrations from 0~2.5 % and 0~3.0 % (w/v), respectively. They had a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 99.2 % and showed the highest similarities of 97.1 and 97.4 % to Edaphobacter aggregans Wbg-1T, respectively, which indicated that these two isolates belonged to a novel species of the genus Edaphobacter in subdivision 1 in the family Acidobacteriaceae. The DNA G+C contents of strains 4G-K17T and 4G-K15 were 57.6 and 57.2 %, respectively. They had similar fatty acid profiles, with the major (>10 %) fatty acid profile comprising iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and summed feature 3 (iso-C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), and the major polar lipid profile comprising phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, unidentified aminophospholipids and unidentified phospholipids. All physiological, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data suggest that strains 4G-K17T and 4G-K15 belong to a new species of the genus Edaphobacter , for which the name Edaphobacter acidisoli sp. nov. is proposed, with 4G-K17T (=CGMCC 1.15447=LMG 29212) as the type strain., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002300