Paenibacillus vietnamensis sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Arachis hypogaea.

ABSTRACT

A novel bacterial strain, N4T, was isolated from the soil of a groundnut Arachis hypogaea field in Nghean province, Vietnam. The phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic characteristics of this strain were determined. Cells of strain N4T were Gram-negative, aerobic, endospore-forming and rod-shaped. Strain N4T grew at 20-37 °C (optimum, 30 °C), pH 6-10 (optimum, pH 7) and 0-5 % NaCl (optimum, 0 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain N4T belonged to the genus Paenibacillus and was closely related to Paenibacillus harenae B519T (=KCTC 3951T) and Paenibacillus alkaliterrae KSL-134T (=KCTC 3956T) with 96.3 and 96.5% gene sequence similarity, respectively. It contained meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. The DNA G+C content was 52.9 mol%. The major isoprenoid quinone was MK-7. Anteiso-C15  0 and iso-C16  0 were the dominant cellular fatty acids. Based on phylogenetic, physiological and biochemical characteristics, strain N4T represents a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus vietnamensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is N4T (=KCTC 33932T= VTCC 12236T).