Adhaeribacter rhizoryzae sp. Nov., a fibrillar matrix-producing bacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of rice plant

A novel fibrillar matrix-producing, rod-shaped, red–orange, asporogenous, aerobic bacterium, designated DK36^T, was isolated from roots of a rice plant in the Ilsan region near Dongguk University, South Korea. Cells of strain DK36^T were Gram-stainnegative and motile by means of gliding. The temperature and pH ranges for growth were 7–35 °C (optimum: 30 °C) and pH 5–10 (optimum: pH 7.0). The strain did not require NaCl for growth but tolerated up to 8% (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic anlaysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that DK36^T formed a monophyletic clade with Adhaeribacter aerophilus 6425 S-25^T, Adhaeribacter aerolatus 6515 J-31^T and Adhaeribacter swui 17mud1-7^T with sequence similarities of 96.3, 95.5 and 95.2%, respectively. The average nucleotide identity and in silico DNA–DNA hybridization values of strain DK36^T with the most closely related strains whose whole genomes are publicly available were 72.5–83.6% and 19–28%, respectively. The strain showed the typical chemotaxonomic characteristics of the genus Adhaeribacter, with the presence of menaquinone MK-7 as the respiratory quinone, and C_16:1 ω5c, iso-C_15:0 and summed feature 4 (composed of iso-C_17:1 I/anteiso-C_17:1 B) as the major fatty acids. The polar lipid profile consisted of phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified aminophosphoglycolipid, one unidentified phospholipid, two unidentified aminolipids and five unidentified polar lipids. The genomic DNA G+C content based on the draft genome sequence was 43.4 mol%. The results of physiological and biochemical tests and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis clearly revealed that strain DK36^T represents a novel species of the genus Adhaeribacter, for which the name Adhaeribacter rhizoryzae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is DK36^T (=KACC 19902^T=NBRC 113689^T).