Description of Nocardia rhamnosiphila Gsoil 1173

Cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated, and branched mycelium-forming. Colonies are filamentous, umbonate, and pale-orange colored after 2 days on R2 A at 30° C. Nitrate is not reduced and esculin is not hydrolyzed. The strain shows negative reactions for enzyme activities of gelatinase and β -galactosidase, whereas the strain shows positive reactions for enzyme activities of urease, arginine dihydrolase, and oxidase. Indole is not produced and glucose is not fermented. The strain utilizes D-glucose, whereas the strain does not utilize D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, D-mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain Gsoil 1173 (= NIBRBAC000500993) was isolated from a soil sample, Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea.