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Bacillus panaciterrae sp. nov., isolated from soil of a ginseng field

Leonid N. Ten^1,2,, Sang-Hoon Baek^1,, Wan-Taek Im¹, Qing-Mei Liu¹, Zubair Aslam¹ and Sung-Taik Lee¹

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
² National University of Uzbekistan, Students Town, Tashkent, 700-174, Uzbekistan

Correspondence
Wan-Taek Im
wandra{at}kaist.ac.kr

A Gram-positive, non-motile, endospore-forming bacterium, designated Gsoil 1517^T, was isolated from soil of a ginseng field in Pocheon Province (South Korea) and was characterized in order to determine its taxonomic position, using a polyphasic approach. It was found to rod-shaped and aerobic or facultatively anaerobic. It grew optimally at 30 °C and at pH 6.5–7.0. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain Gsoil 1517^T forms a distinct phylogenetic lineage within the genus Bacillus, being related to Bacillus funiculus JCM 11201^T (96.8 %). The strain showed less than 94.3 % sequence similarity with other Bacillus species. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was found to be 47.8 mol% and the predominant respiratory quinone was MK-7. The major fatty acids were iso-C_{15 : 0} (42.4 %), anteiso-C_{15 : 0} (17.4 %), iso-C_{14 : 0} (9.7 %) and C_{16 : 0} (6.0 %). On the basis of its phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain Gsoil 1517^T represents a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus panaciterrae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Gsoil 1517^T (=KCTC 13929^T=CCUG 52470^T=LMG 23408^T).

A neighbour-joining tree including representatives of a wider selection of Bacillus species is available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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