Description of Microbispora bryophytorum Gsoil 554

Cells are Gram-stain-positive, non-flagellated, and mycelium-forming. Colonies are filamentous, umbonate, and brown colored after 2 days of incubation on R2 A at 30° C. Nitrate is reduced and esculin is hydrolyzed. The strain shows positive reactions for enzyme activities of β -galactosidase and oxidase, whereas the strain shows negative reactions for enzyme activities of gelatinase, urease, and arginine dihydrolase. Indole is not produced and glucose is not fermented. The strain utilizes D-glucose, L-arabinose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, and potassium gluconate, whereas the strain does not utilize D-mannose, D-mannitol, D-maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenyl acetic acid. Strain Gsoil 554 (= NIBRBAC000500986) was isolated from a soil sample, Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea.