Description of Novosphingobium rosa MMS 16- CNU 530 Cells are Gram-staining-negative, flagellated, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, entire, and pale yellow-colored after 3 days of incubation on ISP-2 (pH 5) at 30°C. Positive for esculin hydrolysis, β -galactosidase, and cytochrome oxidase, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase in the API 20NE test. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, N -acetylglucosamine, and D-maltose are utilized but D-mannitol, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized. Strain MMS 16- CNU 530 (= NIBRBAC000498628) was isolated from a pine forest, Yuseong, Daejeon, Korea.

Published as part of Joung, Yochan, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Seung-Bum, Kim, Wonyong & Cho, Soon Dong Lee and Jang-Cheon, 2018, A report on 24 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea isolated in 2016, belonging to the orders Rhizobiales and Sphingomonadales in the class Alphaproteobacteria, pp. 13-23 in Journal of Species Research 7 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2018.7.1.013, http://zenodo.org/record/12753586