Delftia rhizosphaerae (LMG 29737, CECT 9171, RA6)

Name: Delftia rhizosphaerae (LMG 29737, CECT 9171, RA6)
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BacDive ID 140487

Type strain

Strain Designation RA6

Culture col. no. LMG 29737 CECT 9171 RA6

NCBI tax ID(s) 1915059

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Delftia rhizosphaerae RA6 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from rhizospheric soil of Cistus ladanifer.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 366614

LMG 29737,CECT 9171

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:36

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Comamonadaceae

Genus Delftia

Species Delftia rhizosphaerae

Full scientific name Delftia rhizosphaerae Carro et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement
43244	negative	2.1-2.5 µm	0.8-1.0 µm	rod-shaped		monotrichous, polar

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used
43244	1-3 mm	white-cream	circular	nutritient agar (NA)

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43244	nutritient agar (NA)
43244	tryptic soy agar (TSA)

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
43244	negative	growth	45
43244	negative	growth	37
43244	positive	optimum	28	mesophilic
43244	positive	growth	4-30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43244	positive	optimum	7
43244	positive	growth	6-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

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Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43244	NaCl	positive	growth	1 %
43244	NaCl		growth	5 %

Observation

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ObservationPoly-beta-hydroxybutyrate accumulation

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43244	17128 ChEBI	adipate	+	assimilation
43244	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	assimilation
43244	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	-	assimilation
43244	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	-	assimilation
43244	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	+	assimilation
43244	4853 ChEBI	esculin	-	hydrolysis
43244	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	+	assimilation
43244	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	-	assimilation
43244	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation
43244	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	assimilation
43244	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	assimilation
43244	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	assimilation
43244	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
43244	18401 ChEBI	phenylacetate	-	assimilation

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43244	16136 ChEBI	hydrogen sulfide
43244	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43244	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
43244	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
43244	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51
43244	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22
43244	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20
43244	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24
43244	amylase	-
43244	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
43244	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23
43244	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21
43244	caseinase	+	3.4.21.50
43244	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
43244	chymotrypsin	-	3.4.4.5
43244	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3
43244	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43244	esterase	+
43244	esterase Lipase (C 8)	+
43244	gelatinase	-
43244	glucuronidase	-
43244	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1
43244	lipase	+
43244	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52
43244	phenylalanine deaminase	-	4.3.1.5
43244	phosphohydrolase	+
43244	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4
43244	urease	-	3.5.1.5
43244	valine arylamidase	+

Fatty acid profile

Metadata FA analysis

@ref

43244

Fatty acid	Percentage
C16:1ω7c / C16:1ω6c	44.3
C16:0	30.3
C18:1ω7c / C18:1ω6c	13.6
C10:0 3OH	2.7
C12:0	2.6
C17:0	1.5
C14:0	1.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Plants	#Shrub (Scrub)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Rhizosphere

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture duration	Enrichment culture temperature
43244	rhizospheric soil of Cistus ladanifer	León	Spain	ESP	Europe	tryptic soy agar (TSA; Sigma)	2 days	28

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
43244	Delftia rhizosphaerae strain RA6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KY075818	1469		1915059

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43244	66.4	Thermal denaturation, fluorometry

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Delftia rhizosphaerae sp. nov. isolated from the rhizosphere of Cistus ladanifer.	Carro L, Mulas R, Pastor-Bueis R, Blanco D, Terron A, Gonzalez-Andres F, Peix A, Velazquez E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001892	2017

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 )
#43244	Lorena Carro, Rebeca Mulas, Raquel Pastor-Bueis, Daniel Blanco, Arsenio Terrón, Fernando Gonz alez-Andres, Alvaro Peix, Encarna Velazquez: Delftia rhizosphaerae sp. nov. isolated from the rhizosphere of Cistus ladanifer. IJSEM 67: 1957 - 1960 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001892 , PubMed 28629496 )
#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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Delftia rhizosphaerae (LMG 29737, CECT 9171, RA6)

Name and taxonomic classification