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Published on: August 6, 2019
Saccharothrix tharensis sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from the Thar Desert, India
A Ibeyaima1, A K Singh2, Rup Lal2
1Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, A-10, Sector-62, Noida, 201309, India.
Abstract:
The taxonomic provenance of a filamentous actinobacterial strain isolated from a desert soil was established using a polyphasic approach. The strain has chemotaxonomic and morphological properties consistent with its classification in the genus Saccharothrix. It forms a distinct branch in the Saccharothrix 16S rRNA gene tree, related to the type strain of Saccharothrix saharensis (96.7%) but was distinguished readily from it using a combination of phenotypic properties. The genotypic and phenotypic data show that the strain represents a novel species in the genus Saccharothrix, for which the name Saccharothrix tharensis sp. nov. is proposed with the type strain TD-093T (= KCTC 39724T = MCC 2832T).
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