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Microbacterium horti sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from Cucurbita maxima cultivating soil

Shahina Akter1, Jae Hee Park2, Chang Shik Yin3

  • 1Department of Oriental Medicinal Material and Processing College of Life Science, Kyung Hee University, 1 Seocheon, Kihung Yongin, Kyunggi, 446-701, Republic of Korea.

Archives of Microbiology
|January 14, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
16S rRNAGram-reaction-positiveMicrobacterium hortiPolyphasic taxonomy

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