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Solimonas soli gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from soil of a ginseng field.

Kim MK, Kim YJ, Cho DH, Yi TH, Soung NK, Yang DC

Department of Oriental Medicinal Material and Processing, College of Life Science, Kyung Hee University, 1 Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu Yongin, Kyunggi-do 449-701, South Korea.

A micro-organism, DCY12(T), comprising Gram-negative, non-motile, pale-yellow rods was isolated from soil from a ginseng field in South Korea and was investigated to determine its taxonomic status. It grew optimally at 30 degrees C and at pH 7.0, the G+C content of its DNA was 40.5 mol%, the major components of the fatty acid profile were C(16 : 0) and C(18 : 1) and the major ubiquinone was Q-8. A phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that the novel isolate was most closely related to Hydrocarboniphaga effusa AP103(T) (89.2 %), Nevskia ramosa Soe1 (88.8 %) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 10145(T) (83.2 %). The phenotypic, physiological, metabolic and phylogenetic properties of DCY12(T) suggest that it represents a novel genus (class Gammaproteobacteria) and species, for which the name Solimonas soli gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Solimonas soli is DCY12(T) (=KCTC 12834(T) =LMG 24014(T)).

Published 5 November 2007 in Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 57: 2591-4.
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