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Deinococcus ficus sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Ficus religiosa L.

¹ College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan, Republic of China
² Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany
³ Institut für Bakteriologie, Mykologie und Hygiene, Veterinärmedizinische Universität, Wien, Austria

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Chiu-Chung Young
ccyoung{at}mail.nchu.edu.tw

A pale-pink strain (CC-FR2-10^T) from the rhizosphere of the sacred tree Ficus religiosa L. in Taiwan was investigated by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The cells were Gram-positive, rod-shaped and non-spore-forming. Phylogenetic analyses using the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the isolate indicated that the organism belongs to the genus Deinococcus, the highest sequence similarities being found with Deinococcus grandis (96·1 %), Deinococcus radiodurans (94·3 %), Deinococcus radiopugnans (93·2 %), Deinococcus indicus (93·0 %), Deinococcus proteolyticus (92·5 %), Deinococcus murrayi (92·4 %) and Deinococcus geothermalis (90·7 %). The DNA–DNA relatedness with respect to D. grandis DSM 3963^T was 17·9 %. Chemotaxonomic data revealed that strain CC-FR2-10^T contains only menaquinone MK-8 as the respiratory quinone, unknown phosphoglycolipids as the predominant polar lipids and 16 : 17c, 17 : 18c and 17 : 19c iso as the predominant fatty acids. The biochemical and chemotaxonomic properties demonstrate that strain CC-FR2-10^T represents a novel species, for which the name Deinococcus ficus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CC-FR2-10^T (=CCUG 53391^T=CIP 108832^T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CC-FR2-10^T is AY941086.

A supplementary table showing the fatty acid profiles of strain CC-FR2-10^T and representative Deinococcus species and a phylogenetic tree constructed using maximum parsimony are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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