Cohnella formosensis (JCM 18405, BCRC 80428, CC-Alfalfa-35)

Name: Cohnella formosensis (JCM 18405, BCRC 80428, CC-Alfalfa-35)
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BacDive ID 133908

Type strain

Strain Designation CC-Alfalfa-35

Culture col. no. JCM 18405 BCRC 80428 CC-Alfalfa-35

NCBI tax ID(s) 1145318

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History C.-C. Young CC-Alfalfa-35.

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Cohnella formosensis CC-Alfalfa-35 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from soil.

spore-forming Gram-positive motile rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 287408

BCRC 80428,JCM 18405

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Paenibacillaceae

Genus Cohnella

Species Cohnella formosensis

Full scientific name Cohnella formosensis Hameed et al. 2013

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
30849	positive	2 µm	0.3 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

30849

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
30849	positive	growth	20-50
30849	positive	optimum	33.5	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
30849	positive	optimum	7
30849	positive	growth	06-08

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

30849

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

30849

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
30849	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-7

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30849	62064 ChEBI	2,3-butanediol	+	carbon source
30849	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
30849	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
30849	40585 ChEBI	alpha-cyclodextrin	+	carbon source
30849	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
30849	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
30849	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
30849	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	+	carbon source
30849	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
30849	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
30849	33984 ChEBI	fucose	+	carbon source
30849	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
30849	24175 ChEBI	galacturonate	+	carbon source
30849	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	carbon source
30849	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
30849	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
30849	15428 ChEBI	glycine	+	carbon source
30849	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
30849	17596 ChEBI	inosine	+	carbon source
30849	21217 ChEBI	L-alaninamide	+	carbon source
30849	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	+	carbon source
30849	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
30849	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
30849	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
30849	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
30849	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
30849	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
30849	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
30849	37657 ChEBI	methyl D-glucoside	+	carbon source
30849	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
30849	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
30849	17148 ChEBI	putrescine	+	carbon source
30849	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
30849	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
30849	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
30849	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	carbon source
30849	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
30849	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
30849	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
30849	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
30849	17748 ChEBI	thymidine	+	carbon source
30849	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
30849	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
30849	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source
30849	16704 ChEBI	uridine	+	carbon source
30849	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	carbon source
30849	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
30849	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
30849	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
30849	soil
67770	Rhizosphere soil of Medicago sativa L. at an agricultural farmland, (23.058183° N 120.336715° E)	Medicago sativa	Taichung	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia	23.0582	120.337 23.0582/120.337

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
30849	Cohnella formosensis strain CC-Alfalfa-35 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JN806384	1516		1145318

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
30849	58.3
67770	58.3	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Cohnella formosensis sp. nov., a xylanolytic bacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of Medicago sativa L.	Hameed A, Hung MH, Lin SY, Hsu YH, Liu YC, Shahina M, Lai WA, Huang HC, Young LS, Young CC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.045831-0	2013

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 )
#27179	IJSEM 2806 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.045831-0 , PubMed 23315409 )
#30849	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27179
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Cohnella formosensis (JCM 18405, BCRC 80428, CC-Alfalfa-35)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

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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