Rhizobium gei (ZFJT-2, CCTCC AB 2013015, KCTC 32301)

Name: Rhizobium gei (ZFJT-2, CCTCC AB 2013015, KCTC 32301)
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BacDive ID 133182

Type strain

Strain Designation ZFJT-2

Culture col. no. ZFJT-2 CCTCC AB 2013015 KCTC 32301 LMG 27603

NCBI tax ID(s) 1395951

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Rhizobium gei ZFJT-2 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from surface-sterilized stem of Geum aleppicum Jacq..

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 366534

LMG 27603,KCTC 32301

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:53

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Rhizobiaceae

Genus Rhizobium

Species Rhizobium gei

Full scientific name Rhizobium gei Shi et al. 2016

Synonyms (2)

Pararhizobium gei
"Pararhizobium gei"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
24962	negative	3.5-5.4 µm	0.7-0.9 µm	rod-shaped		polar

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
24962	2 mm	white	circular	2 days	YMA

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
24962	YMA

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
24962	positive	growth	10-33
24962	positive	optimum	28-30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
24962	positive	optimum	7
24962	positive	growth	7.0-9.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

24962

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
24962	NaCl	positive	growth	0-0.5 %(w/v)
24962	NaCl	positive	optimum	0 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
24962	17597 ChEBI	4-hydroxybenzaldehyde	-	carbon source
24962	17128 ChEBI	adipate	-	carbon source
24962	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
24962	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	nitrogen source
24962	18135 ChEBI	catechol	-	carbon source
24962	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	+	carbon source
24962	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	carbon source
24962	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	-	carbon source
24962	8391 ChEBI	D-gluconate	+	carbon source
24962	17315 ChEBI	D-glucosamine	+	carbon source
24962	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	carbon source
24962	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	carbon source
24962	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	-	carbon source
24962	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	carbon source
24962	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	carbon source
24962	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	-	carbon source
24962	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
24962	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	carbon source
24962	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	builds acid from
24962	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
24962	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
24962	15428 ChEBI	glycine	-	carbon source
24962	15428 ChEBI	glycine	+	nitrogen source
24962	16467 ChEBI	L-arginine	+	carbon source
24962	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	-	nitrogen source
24962	17196 ChEBI	L-asparagine	+	nitrogen source
24962	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	carbon source
24962	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	+	nitrogen source
24962	15971 ChEBI	L-histidine	+	nitrogen source
24962	17191 ChEBI	L-isoleucine	+	nitrogen source
24962	15603 ChEBI	L-leucine	+	nitrogen source
24962	18019 ChEBI	L-lysine	+	nitrogen source
24962	16643 ChEBI	L-methionine	+	carbon source
24962	16643 ChEBI	L-methionine	+	nitrogen source
24962	17295 ChEBI	L-phenylalanine	+	nitrogen source
24962	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	+	carbon source
24962	17203 ChEBI	L-proline	+	nitrogen source
24962	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	carbon source
24962	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	+	carbon source
24962	16857 ChEBI	L-threonine	+	nitrogen source
24962	16828 ChEBI	L-tryptophan	-	nitrogen source
24962	17895 ChEBI	L-tyrosine	-	carbon source
24962	16414 ChEBI	L-valine	-	carbon source
24962	16414 ChEBI	L-valine	+	nitrogen source
24962	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
24962	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
24962	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	carbon source
24962	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	carbon source
24962	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
24962	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	carbon source
24962	32954 ChEBI	sodium acetate	+	carbon source
24962	53258 ChEBI	sodium citrate	-	carbon source
24962	28017 ChEBI	starch	-
24962	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	carbon source
24962	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
24962	132950 ChEBI	tartrate	-	carbon source
24962	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
24962	27897 ChEBI	tryptophan	-	energy source
24962	16632 ChEBI	vanillate	-	carbon source
24962	37166 ChEBI	xylan	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
24962	15688 ChEBI	acetoin
24962	35581 ChEBI	indole

Metabolite tests

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Voges-proskauer-test	Indole test
24962	15688 ChEBI	acetoin	+
24962	35581 ChEBI	indole		-

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
24962	6-phospho-beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.85
24962	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
24962	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
24962	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1
24962	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
24962	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
24962	alpha-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.20
24962	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
24962	arginine dihydrolase	+	3.5.3.6
24962	beta-glucosidase	+	3.2.1.21
24962	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31
24962	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
24962	esterase (C 4)	+
24962	esterase lipase (C 8)	-
24962	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
24962	lipase (C 14)	+
24962	lysine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.18
24962	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
24962	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+
24962	ornithine decarboxylase	+	4.1.1.17
24962	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4
24962	tryptophan deaminase	-	4.1.99.1
24962	urease	+	3.5.1.5
24962	valine arylamidase	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Stem (Branch)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Sterilized plant part

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
24962	surface-sterilized stem of Geum aleppicum Jacq.	Taibai Mountain in Shaanxi Province	China	CHN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
24962	Rhizobium gei strain ZFJT-2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KF551166

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
24962	58.3	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Validation List no. 217. Valid publication of new names and new combinations effectively published outside the IJSEM.	Oren A, Goker M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006275	2024
Proteome	Pararhizobium qamdonense sp. nov., Isolated from an Alpine Soil in Tibet and the Reclassification of Rhizobium gei Shi et al. 2016 as Pararhizobium gei comb. nov.	Zhang YF, Dai YN, Pu JF, Yang XF, Liu HH, Pan H, Tian Y.	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-023-03567-8	2023
Phylogeny	Rhizobium gei sp. nov., a bacterial endophyte of Geum aleppicum.	Shi X, Li C, Zhao L, Si M, Zhu L, Xin K, Chen C, Wang Y, Shen X, Zhang L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001348	2016

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#24962	X. L. Shi, Changfu,Zhao, Liang,Si, Meiru,Zhu, Lingfang,Xin, Kaiyun,Chen, Chaoqiong,Wang, Yao,Shen, Xihui,Zhang, Lei: Rhizobium gei sp. nov., a bacterial endophyte of Geum aleppicum. IJSEM 66: 4282 - 4288 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001348 , PubMed 27474082 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Rhizobium gei (ZFJT-2, CCTCC AB 2013015, KCTC 32301)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Metabolite tests

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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