Azospirillum picis (DSM 19922, CCUG 55431, IMMIB TAR-3)

Name: Azospirillum picis (DSM 19922, CCUG 55431, IMMIB TAR-3)
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BacDive ID 13999

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 19922 CCUG 55431 IMMIB TAR-3

NCBI tax ID(s) 488438

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Azospirillum picis DSM 19922 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative prokaryote that was isolated from discarded road tar.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403529

DSM 19922,CCUG 55431

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:50:14

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Azospirillaceae

Genus Azospirillum

Species Azospirillum picis

Full scientific name Azospirillum picis Lin et al. 2009

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
32645	negative	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

32645

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8391	TRYPTONE SOYA BROTH (TSB) (DSMZ Medium 545)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTONE SOYA BROTH (TSB) (DSMZ Medium 545) Composition: Casein peptone 17.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Soy peptone 3.0 g/l D(+)-Glucose 2.5 g/l K2HPO4 2.5 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
8391	positive	growth	37	mesophilic
32645	positive	growth	22-37
32645	positive	optimum	29.5	mesophilic
60586	positive	growth	30-37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
32645	aerobe
60586	aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32645	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
32645	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
32645	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
32645	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
32645	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
32645	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
32645	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	+	carbon source
32645	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
32645	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
32645	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
32645	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
32645	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32645	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
32645	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
32645	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Engineered product
#Engineered	#Waste	#Solid waste

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
8391	discarded road tar		Taichung City area	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia
60586	Tar,discarded road tar	2007	Taichung City area	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8391	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3081489v1 assembly for Azospirillum picis DSM 19922	contig	GCA_030814895	488438.5	2928263341	488438	64.25
124043	ASM1787611v1 assembly for Azospirillum picis IMMIB TAR-3	contig	GCA_017876115	488438.3	2918263546	488438	64.15
124043	ASM4265516v1 assembly for Azospirillum picis CCUG 55431	scaffold	GCA_042655165			488438	49.31

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
8391	Azospirillum picis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain IMMIB TAR-3T	AM922283	1445		488438

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Putative Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria Associated With the Rhizosphere and Root Endosphere of Wheat Plants Grown in an Andisol From Southern Chile.	Rilling JI, Acuna JJ, Sadowsky MJ, Jorquera MA.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2018.02710	2018
	Composted Cattle Manure Increases Microbial Activity and Soil Fertility More Than Composted Swine Manure in a Submerged Rice Paddy.	Das S, Jeong ST, Das S, Kim PJ.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.01702	2017
Phylogeny	Azospirillum thermophilum sp. nov., isolated from a hot spring.	Zhao ZL, Ming H, Ding CL, Ji WL, Cheng LJ, Niu MM, Zhang YM, Zhang LY, Meng XL, Nie GX	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003788	2020
Phylogeny	Azospirillum soli sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing species isolated from agricultural soil.	Lin SY, Hameed A, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Lai WA, Shen FT, Young CC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000618	2015
Phylogeny	Azospirillum fermentarium sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing species isolated from a fermenter.	Lin SY, Liu YC, Hameed A, Hsu YH, Lai WA, Shen FT, Young CC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.050872-0	2013
Phylogeny	Azospirillum picis sp. nov., isolated from discarded tar.	Lin SY, Young CC, Hupfer H, Siering C, Arun AB, Chen WM, Lai WA, Shen FT, Rekha PD, Yassin AF	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65837-0	2009

References

#8391	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19922
#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 )
#32645	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 #28856 (see below)
#60586	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 55431
#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 picis (DSM 19922, CCUG 55431, IMMIB TAR-3)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_030814895

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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