RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Liu, Bo A1 Liu, Guo-Hong A1 Wang, Xiao-Ying A1 Wang, Jie-Ping A1 Zhu, Yu-Jing A1 Zhang, Hai-Feng A1 Sengonca, CetinYR 2018 T1 Bacillus populi sp. nov. isolated from Populus euphratica rhizosphere soil of the Taklamakan desert JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 1 SP 155 OP 159 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002476 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A rod-shaped, endospore-forming, aerobic bacterium, designated FJAT-45347T, was isolated from rhizosphere soil collected from the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang (PR China). Growth was observed at 15–35 °C (optimum 25 °C), in 0 % and 20.0 % NaCl (optimum 8.0 %) and at pH 7.5–12.0 (optimum 8.0), respectively. The cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid and the isoprenoid quinone was MK-7. The main fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0. The main polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences affiliated FJAT-45347T to the genus Bacillus , and it showed the highest sequence similarities to Bacillus clarkii DSM 8720T (96.1 %). The average nucleotide identity and in silico DNA–DNA hybridization values between FJAT-45347T and the most closely related species were 68.5 and 26.2 %, respectively, which were lower than the thresholds commonly used to define species (96 and 70 %, respectively), indicating that it represented a member of a different taxon. The DNA G+C content was 40.6 mol%. The phenotypic characters and taxono-genomics study revealed that FJAT-45347T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus , for which the name Bacillus populi sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is FJAT-45347T (=DSM 104632T=CCTCC AB 2016257T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002476