Ensifer aridi (HAMBI 3707, LMG 31426, LMR001)

Name: Ensifer aridi (HAMBI 3707, LMG 31426, LMR001)
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BacDive ID 166119

Type strain

Strain Designation LMR001

Culture col. no. HAMBI 3707 LMG 31426 LMR001

NCBI tax ID(s) 1708715

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Ensifer aridi LMR001 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that forms circular colonies and was isolated from desert sand dune.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped colony-forming aerobe genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 283949

LMG 31426

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:45:49

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Rhizobiaceae

Genus Ensifer

Species Ensifer aridi

Full scientific name Ensifer aridi Rocha et al. 2024

Synonyms (2)

"Ensifer aridi"
Sinorhizobium aridi

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
68259	negative	rod-shaped
125439	negative			95.852

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony shape	Incubation period	Medium used
68259	1-3 mm	circular	2 days	YMA

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
68259	positive	growth	40

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
68259	positive	growth	6-9.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
68259	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	98.074

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
68259
125439		98.733

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
68259	18333 ChEBI	D-arabitol	+	carbon source
68259	15824 ChEBI	D-fructose	+	carbon source
68259	16899 ChEBI	D-mannitol	+	carbon source
68259	16551 ChEBI	D-trehalose	+	carbon source
68259	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
68259	30849 ChEBI	L-arabinose	+	carbon source
68259	62345 ChEBI	L-rhamnose	+	carbon source
68259	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
68259	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	carbon source
68259	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
68259	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
68259	32528 ChEBI	turanose	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture temperature
68259	desert sand dune	Moroccan Merzouga desert sand dune	Morocco	MAR	Africa	31.0952	-3.96558 31.0952/-3.96558	YMA	28

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
68259	ASM207850v1 assembly for Ensifer aridi LMR001	scaffold	GCA_002078505	1708715.4	2850101759	1708715	53.7

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
68259	61.7	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM207850v1 assembly for Ensifer aridi LMR001
NCBI: GCA_002078505

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.07	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	95.85	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	45.18	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.73	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Analysis of Ensifer aridi Mutants Affecting Regulation of Methionine, Trehalose, and Inositol Metabolisms Suggests a Role in Stress Adaptation and Symbiosis Development.	Belfquih M, Filali-Maltouf A, Le Quere A	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10020298	2022
Phylogeny	Diversity and phenotypic analyses of salt- and heat-tolerant wild bean Phaseolus filiformis rhizobia native of a sand beach in Baja California and description of Ensifer aridi sp. nov.	Rocha G, Le Quere A, Medina A, Cuellar A, Contreras JL, Carreno R, Bustillos R, Munoz-Rojas J, Villegas MDC, Chaintreuil C, Dreyfus B, Munive JA	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-019-01744-7	2019

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 )
#68259	Guadalupe Rocha, Antoine Le Queré, Arturo Medina, Alma Cuéllar, José-Luis Contreras, Ricardo Carreño, Rocío Bustillos, Jesús Muñoz-Rojas, María del Carmen Villegas, Clémence Chaintreuil, Bernard Dreyfus & José-Antonio Munive: Diversity and phenotypic analyses of salt- and heat-tolerant wild bean Phaseolus filiformis rhizobia native of a sand beach in Baja California and description of Ensifer aridi sp. nov.. Arch Microbiol 202: 309 - 322 2020 ( DOI 10.1007/s00203-019-01744-7 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Ensifer aridi (HAMBI 3707, LMG 31426, LMR001)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_002078505

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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