Runella soli sp. nov., isolated from garden soil

A Gram-stain negative, aerobic, salmon-pink, non-motile and rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain 15J11-1^T, was isolated from a soil sample collected from the university garden in Nowongu, South Korea. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain 15J11-1^T is phylogenetically related to Runella slithyformis DSM 19594^T and Runella palustris HMF3829^T (96.9% and 95.4% sequence similarity, respectively). The major fatty acids of strain 15J11-1^T were identified as iso-C_15:0, iso-C_17:0 3-OH, C_16:1ω5c and summed feature 3 (C_16:1ω7c and/or C_16:1ω6c). The predominant respiratory quinone was identified as MK-7. The polar lipids were found to comprise of phosphatidylethanolamine, three unidentified aminolipids, five unidentified glycolipids, two unidentified aminoglycolipids, an unidentified phospholipid and an unidentified polar lipid. The G + C content in the genomic DNA of the strain 15J11-1^T was determined to be 49.9 mol%. Based on the results of genotypic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic analyses, strain 15J11-1^T is concluded to represent a novel species of the genus Runella, for which the name Runella soli sp. nov. (type strain 15J11-1^T = KCTC 52021^T = NBRC 112817^T) is proposed.