Considerations on the Identity and Diversity of Organisms Affiliated with Sphingobacterium multivorum-Proposal for a New Species, Sphingobacterium paramultivorum.

ABSTRACT: Plant biomass offers great potential as a sustainable resource, and microbial consortia are primordial in its bioconversion. The wheat-straw-biodegradative bacterial strain w15 has drawn much attention as a result of its biodegradative potential and superior degradation performance in bacterial-fungal consortia. Strain w15 was originally assigned to the species Sphingobacterium multivorum based on its 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequence. A closer examination of this taxonomic placement revealed that the sequence used has 98.9% identity with the 'divergent' 16S rRNA gene sequence of S. multivorum NCTC 11343^T, yet lower relatedness with the canonical 16S rRNA sequence. A specific region of the gene, located between positions 186 and 210, was found to be highly var

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8540502 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature