@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005118, author = "Zhang, Xian-Jiao and Feng, Guang-Da and Yang, Fan and Zhu, Honghui and Yao, Qing", title = "Chitinophaga rhizophila sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of banana", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2021", volume = "71", number = "11", pages = "", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005118", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005118", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "phylogeny", keywords = "taxonomy", keywords = "rhizosphere", keywords = "Chitinophaga", eid = "005118", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic and rod-shaped bacterium, designated as strain B61T, was isolated from rhizosphere soil of banana collected from Dongguan, Guangdong Province, PR China. Growth occurred at 15–40 °C, within a pH range of pH 6.0–9.0. Results of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity and phylogenetic analyses showed that strain B61T was most closely related to ‘Chitinophaga agri’ KACC 21303 (98.9 %) and Chitinophaga pinensis DSM 2588T (98.8 %). The genome size was 7.6 Mb with a G+C content of 45.2 mol%. The genome-inferred average nucleotide identity values between strain B61T and two closely related strains were 79.2 and 79.3 %, respectively, with corresponding digital DNA–DNA hybridization values of 22.3 and 22.6 %. The major fatty acids of the novel strain were iso-C15:0, C16:1 ω5c and iso-C17:0 3-OH and the sole respiratory quinone was menaquinone 7 (MK-7). The polar lipids consisted of phosphatidylethanolamine, five unidentified aminolipids, four unidentified glycolipids and six unidentified lipids. The phenotypic and phylogenetic results clearly supported that strain B61T represents a novel species of the genus Chitinophaga , for which the name Chitinophaga rhizophila, sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain B61T (=GDMCC 1.2608T=KCTC 82856T).", }