Pedobacter ureilyticus sp. nov., isolated from tomato rhizosphere soil
A Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped and pinkish-yellow bacterium, which was motile by gliding and designated strain THG–T11T, was isolated from tomato rhizosphere soil in Gyeonggi province, Republic of Korea. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons, strain THG-T11T was found to be most closely related to ‘Pedobacter zeaxanthinifaciens’ TDMA-5 (95.9 % sequence similarity), Pedobacter agri PB92T (94.9 %), Pedobacter rhizosphaerae 01-96T (94.6 %) and Pedobacter alluvionis NWER-II11T (94.5 %). The DNA G+C content was 38.4 mol%. The only isoprenoid quinone detected in strain THG-T11T was menaquinone-7 (MK-7). The major component in the polyamine pattern was sym-homospermidine. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified phosphoglycolipid, an unidentified glycolipid, an unidentified lipid, unidentified aminophospholipids and unidentified aminolipids. The major ceramide was found to be ceramide phosphorylethanolamine. The major fatty acids were identified as iso-C15 : 0, summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c) and C16 : 0. These data support the affiliation of strain THG-T11T to the genus Pedobacter . Based on phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analysis, it is proposed that strain THG-T11T represents a novel species of the genus Pedobacter for which the name Pedobacter ureilyticus sp. nov. is proposed, with THG-T11T as the type strain ( = KACC 17660T = JCM 19461T).