Bacillus arachidis
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Caryophanales, Family Bacillaceae, Genus Bacillus, Bacillus arachidis Chen et al.
2023.
Species description is based on a single isolate.
Gram-positive, rods, 1.8-3.0 x 1.0-1.1 µm. Motile.
Colonies on  Luria-Bertani medium are creamy, opaque, and usually rhizoidal after
incubation at 30 ºC for 48 h on LB agar. Growth occurs at 30-45 ºC (optimum 30 ºC),
pH 4.0-10.0 (optimum pH 6.0) and 0-4% (w/v) NaCl (optimum 2%). Facultatively
aerobic.
Isolated from a peanut rhizosphere soil sample collected in Jiangsu Province, China.
Sensitive to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin and resistant to kanamycin and spectinomycin.
Undetermined.
  1. Chen Y, Li Y, Shen J, Liu Q, Liu Y, Chu Y, Xiao Z. Bacillus arachidis sp. nov., Isolated from Peanut Rhizosphere Soil. Curr Microbiol
    2022; 79:231.
Positive results for citrate utilization, gelatinase, beta-galactosidase, starch hydrolysis,
urease, Voges-Proskauer and glucose assimilation.

Negative results for arginine dihydrolase,  H2S production, indole production, oxidase, ornithine decarboxylase,
No assimilation of: amygdalin, D-adonitol, lactose, mannitol, inositol, sorbitol, rhamnose, melibiose, and sucrose.
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