Rhizobium puerariae (BCC 73740, NBRC 110722, PC004)

Name: Rhizobium puerariae (BCC 73740, NBRC 110722, PC004)
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BacDive ID 140905

Type strain

Strain Designation PC004

Culture col. no. BCC 73740 NBRC 110722 PC004

NCBI tax ID(s) 1585791

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Rhizobium puerariae PC004 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that forms circular colonies and was isolated from Root nodules of the Thai medicinal plant Pueraria candollei var. candollei grown at the Faculty of Pharmacy Mahidol University.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 394561

NBRC 110722

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:43

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Rhizobiaceae

Genus Rhizobium

Species Rhizobium puerariae

Full scientific name Rhizobium puerariae Boonsnongcheep et al. 2016

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43749	negative	1.7-2.4 µm	1-1.2 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
43749	0.5-1 mm	White	circular	3 days	YMA

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth
43749	Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)
43749	YMA

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
43749	positive	growth	14-38

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
43749	positive	growth	6-12	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

43749

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

43749

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
43749	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %(w/v)

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
43749	16808 ChEBI	2-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	carbon source
43749	58143 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	-	carbon source
43749	27613 ChEBI	amygdalin	-	carbon source
43749	18305 ChEBI	arbutin	-	carbon source
43749	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	assimilation
43749	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	-	carbon source
43749	17108 ChEBI	D-arabinose	+	carbon source
43749	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	carbon source
43749	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	carbon source
43749	28847 ChEBI	D-fucose	+	carbon source
43749	12936 ChEBI	D-galactose	+	carbon source
43749	17634 ChEBI	D-glucose	+	carbon source
43749	62318 ChEBI	D-lyxose	+	carbon source
43749	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	carbon source
43749	16024 ChEBI	D-mannose	+	carbon source
43749	16988 ChEBI	D-ribose	+	carbon source
43749	17924 ChEBI	D-sorbitol	-	carbon source
43749	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	assimilation
43749	16443 ChEBI	D-tagatose	-	carbon source
43749	65327 ChEBI	D-xylose	+	carbon source
43749	17113 ChEBI	erythritol	-	carbon source
43749	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
43749		esculin ferric citrate	+	carbon source
43749	16813 ChEBI	galactitol	-	carbon source
43749	5291 ChEBI	gelatin	-	hydrolysis
43749	28066 ChEBI	gentiobiose	-	carbon source
43749	24265 ChEBI	gluconate	-	carbon source
43749	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	assimilation
43749	15978 ChEBI	glycerol 3-phosphate	+	carbon source
43749	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	-	carbon source
43749	15443 ChEBI	inulin	-	carbon source
43749	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	carbon source
43749	18403 ChEBI	L-arabitol	-	carbon source
43749	18287 ChEBI	L-fucose	+	carbon source
43749	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	carbon source
43749	17266 ChEBI	L-sorbose	-	carbon source
43749	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	assimilation
43749	65328 ChEBI	L-xylose	-	carbon source
43749	17716 ChEBI	lactose	-	carbon source
43749	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	assimilation
43749	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
43749	17306 ChEBI	maltose	-	carbon source
43749	6731 ChEBI	melezitose	-	carbon source
43749	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	assimilation
43749	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	-	carbon source
43749	320061 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside	-	carbon source
43749	43943 ChEBI	methyl alpha-D-mannoside	-	carbon source
43749	74863 ChEBI	methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside	+	carbon source
43749	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	-	carbon source
43749	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	-	carbon source
43749	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
43749	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	-	carbon source
43749	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	assimilation
43749	15963 ChEBI	ribitol	-	carbon source
43749	17814 ChEBI	salicin	-	carbon source
43749	28017 ChEBI	starch	-	carbon source
43749	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	-	carbon source
43749	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	-	carbon source
43749	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	assimilation
43749	32528 ChEBI	turanose	-	carbon source
43749	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	-	carbon source

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Resistance conc.
43749	28971	ampicillin	5 µg/mL
43749	17698	chloramphenicol	50 µg/mL
43749	48923	erythromycin	100 µg/mL
43749	6104	kanamycin	50 µg/mL
43749	17076	streptomycin	50 µg/mL
43749	17076	streptomycin	100 µg/mL

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43749	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
43749	arginine dihydrolase	-	3.5.3.6
43749	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
43749	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
43749	urease	+	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Root nodule

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
43749	Root nodules of the Thai medicinal plant Pueraria candollei var. candollei grown at the Faculty of Pharmacy Mahidol University	Bangkok	Thailand	THA	Asia	2010-12

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence LC014930 (>99% sequence identity) for Rhizobium puerariae subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	7
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples	15
Plant Samples	11
Total Samples	35

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Database
43749	Rhizobium puerariae gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	LC014930

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
43749	64	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rhizobium puerariae sp. nov., an endophytic bacterium from the root nodules of the medicinal plant Pueraria candollei var. candollei.	Boonsnongcheep P, Prathanturarug S, Takahashi Y, Matsumoto A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000863	2015

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 )
#43749	Panitch Boonsnongcheep, Sompop Prathanturarug, Yoko Takahashi, Atsuko Matsumoto: Rhizobium puerariae sp. nov., an endophytic bacterium from the root nodules of the medicinal plant Pueraria candollei var. candollei. IJSEM 66: 1236 - 1241 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000863 , PubMed 26704271 )
#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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Rhizobium puerariae (BCC 73740, NBRC 110722, PC004)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

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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