sp. nov., a novel species widely colonizing plant rhizosphere.

A polyphasic taxonomic approach was used to characterize the three bacterial strains (FP830, FP2034, and FP2262) isolated from the rhizosphere soil of rice, corn, and highland barley in Beijing, Heilongjiang, and Tibet, respectively, in PR China. These strains were Gram-negative, rod-shaped, and have one or two polar flagella. They exhibited optimal growth at 28 °C and pH 7.0 in the presence of 1 % (w/v) NaCl and showed fluorescence under ultraviolet light when cultivated on King's B plates. The FP830 genome size is 6.4 Mbp with a G+C content of 61.0 mol%. FP830 has the potential to promote plant growth by producing various metabolites such as fengycin, pyoverdin, indole-3-acetic acid, and the volatile substance 2,3-butanediol. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that three isolates formed an independent branch, which most closely related to type strains DSM 13194 and SWRI12. The values of average nucleotide identity and digital DNA-DNA hybridization between three isolates and closest relatives were not higher than 93.7 and 52.3 %, respectively. The dominant cellular fatty acids were C, summed feature 3 (C 7/C ω6), and summed feature 8 (Cω7/Cω6). The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, and aminophospholipid. The predominant respiratory quinone was ubiquinone (Q-9). Based on polyphasic taxonomic analysis, it was concluded that strains FP830, FP2034, and FP2262 represented a novel species within the genus , and sp. nov. was proposed for the name of novel species. The type strain is FP830 (=ACCC 62448=JCM 35689).