Rhodobacter azollae (KCTC 15475, LMG 28748, JA912)

Name: Rhodobacter azollae (KCTC 15475, LMG 28748, JA912)
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BacDive ID 140725

Type strain

Strain Designation JA912

Culture col. no. KCTC 15475 LMG 28748 JA912

NCBI tax ID(s) 1608946

Special Collections KCTC Literature strains

History KCTC <- Ch Sasikala, JNT Univ, India

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Rhodobacter azollae JA912 is a microaerophile, photoorganoheterotroph, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from a fern, Azolla filiculoides, growing in a fresh water pond.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped microaerophile photoorganoheterotroph 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 269058

LMG 28748,KCTC 15475

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:39:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Paracoccaceae

Genus Rhodobacter

Species Rhodobacter azollae

Full scientific name Rhodobacter azollae Suresh et al. 2017

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Flagellum arrangement
43503	negative	1-3 µm	1-1.5 µm	rod-shaped	polar
67771				rod-shaped	monotrichous, polar
67771	negative

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43503	positive	growth	25-35
43503	positive	optimum	30
67771	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43503	positive	optimum	7
43503	positive	growth	6-8

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

67771

Oxygen tolerancemicroaerophile

Nutrition type

43503

Typephotoorganoheterotroph

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43503	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %
43503	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43503	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
43503	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	electron donor
43503	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	growth
43503	31206 ChEBI	ammonium chloride	+	nitrogen source
43503	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
43503	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	electron donor
43503	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	growth
43503	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	nitrogen source
43503		casamino acids	+	growth
43503	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	carbon source
43503	16947 ChEBI	citrate	-	electron donor
43503	18276 ChEBI	dihydrogen	-	carbon source
43503	18276 ChEBI	dihydrogen	-	electron donor
43503	17997 ChEBI	dinitrogen	+	nitrogen source
43503	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
43503	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	electron donor
43503	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	growth
43503	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	+	carbon source
43503	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	+	electron donor
43503	29806 ChEBI	fumarate	+	growth
43503	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
43503	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	electron donor
43503	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	growth
43503	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	nitrogen source
43503	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
43503	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	electron donor
43503	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	growth
43503	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	carbon source
43503	29985 ChEBI	L-glutamate	-	electron donor
43503	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	growth
43503	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
43503	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	electron donor
43503	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	growth
43503		peptone	+	growth
43503	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	growth
43503	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
43503	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	electron donor
43503	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	growth
43503	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
43503	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	electron donor
43503	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	growth
43503	15138 ChEBI	sulfide	-	carbon source
43503	15138 ChEBI	sulfide	-	electron donor
43503	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	-	carbon source
43503	16094 ChEBI	thiosulfate	-	electron donor

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43503	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Freshwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
43503	a fern, Azolla filiculoides, growing in a fresh water pond		Gujarat	India	IND	Asia	22.783	72.717 22.783/72.717
67771	From fern, `Azolla filiculoides`, fresh water body	Azolla filiculoides	Kambhat, Gujarath	India	IND	Asia	22.7833	72.7167 22.7833/72.7167

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LN810641 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhodobacter from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	12158
Soil Samples	1824
Animal Samples	3470
Plant Samples	649
Total Samples	18101

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43503	Rhodobacter sp. JA912 partial 16S rRNA gene, strain JA912	LN810641

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43503	64.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Description of Rhodobacter azollae sp. nov. and Rhodobacter lacus sp. nov.	Suresh G, Sailaja B, Ashif A, Dave BP, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002107	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 )
#43503	Suresh G, Sailaja B, Ashif A, Bharti P. Dave, Sasikala Ch., Ramana Ch.V.: Description of Rhodobacter azollae sp. nov. and Rhodobacter lacus sp. nov.. IJSEM 67: 3289 - 3295 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.002107 , PubMed 28829020 )
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#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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Rhodobacter azollae (KCTC 15475, LMG 28748, JA912)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Nutrition type

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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