Azospirillum melinis (CCBAU 5106001, LMG 23364, CGMCC 1.5340)

Name: Azospirillum melinis (CCBAU 5106001, LMG 23364, CGMCC 1.5340)
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BacDive ID 134169

Type strain

Culture col. no. CCBAU 5106001 LMG 23364 CGMCC 1.5340 TMCY 0552

NCBI tax ID(s) 328839

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Azospirillum melinis CCBAU 5106001 is a facultative anaerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from molasses grass.

Gram-negative rod-shaped facultative anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 297128

CGMCC 1.5340,LMG 23364,DSM 17798,LMG 24250,LMG 23329

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:59

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Azospirillaceae

Genus Azospirillum

Species Azospirillum melinis

Full scientific name Azospirillum melinis Peng et al. 2006

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31672	negative	1-1.5 µm	0.7-0.8 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

31672

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
31672	positive	growth	05-37
31672	positive	optimum	20-33

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31672	positive	optimum	6
31672	positive	growth	04-08	acidophile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31672

Oxygen tolerancefacultative anaerobe

Spore formation

31672

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31672	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %
31672	NaCl	positive	optimum	0-2 %

Observation

31672

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31672	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
31672	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
31672	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	carbon source
31672	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
31672	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
31672	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
31672	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
31672	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)

Isolation

31672

Sample typemolasses grass

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM1787605v1 assembly for Azospirillum melinis TMCY 0552	contig	GCA_017876055	328839.6	2918256355	328839	67.46

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
31672	Azospirillum melinis strain TMCY 0552 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ022958	1414		328839

GC content

31672

GC-content (mol%)68.7

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Exploring ACC deaminase-producing bacteria for drought stress mitigation in Brachiaria.	Ferreira JP, Vidal MS, Baldani JI.	Front Plant Sci	10.3389/fpls.2025.1607697	2025
	Characterizing indigenous plant growth promoting bacteria and their synergistic effects with organic and chemical fertilizers on wheat (Triticum aestivum).	Asghar I, Ahmed M, Farooq MA, Ishtiaq M, Arshad M, Akram M, Umair A, Alrefaei AF, Jat Baloch MY, Naeem A.	Front Plant Sci	10.3389/fpls.2023.1232271	2023
Phylogeny	Azospirillum melinis sp. nov., a group of diazotrophs isolated from tropical molasses grass.	Peng G, Wang H, Zhang G, Hou W, Liu Y, Wang ET, Tan Z	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64025-0	2006

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 )
#27951	IJSEM 1263 2006 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64025-0 , PubMed 16738102 )
#31672	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 #27951
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Azospirillum melinis (CCBAU 5106001, LMG 23364, CGMCC 1.5340)

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

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_017876055

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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