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Flavobacterium endophyticum (DSM 29537, ACCC 19708, 522)

BacDive ID 131510

Type strain

Strain Designation 522

Culture col. no. DSM 29537 ACCC 19708 522

NCBI tax ID(s) 1540163

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Flavobacterium endophyticum 522 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from surface-sterilized root tissue of maize.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 405744

DSM 29537

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:01:16

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Flavobacterium

Species Flavobacterium endophyticum

Full scientific name Flavobacterium endophyticum Gao et al. 2015

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	100
125438		92
125438	negative	98.93

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
22737	PYG MEDIUM (B) (DSMZ Medium 1139)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PYG MEDIUM (B) (DSMZ Medium 1139) Composition: Glucose 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 10.0 g/l Polypeptone 5.0 g/l Tryptone 5.0 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.016 g/l CaCl2 0.008 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
22737	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Root (Rhizome)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Sterilized plant part

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
22737	surface-sterilized root tissue of maize	Beijing, Fangshan District	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KJ873109 (>99% sequence identity) for Flavobacterium endophyticum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	21
Soil Samples	122
Animal Samples	104
Plant Samples	15
Total Samples	262

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
22737	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM363445v1 assembly for Flavobacterium endophyticum DSM 29537	scaffold	GCA_003634455	1540163.3	2731639186	1540163	76.51

Genome browser: GCA_003634455

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
22737	Flavobacterium endophyticum strain 522 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KJ873109	1402		1540163

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
22737	37.7	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
Flavobacterium endophyticum DSM 29537
NCBI: GCA_003634455

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	65.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	100.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	85.80	no

Predictions from Diaspora project based on:
Flavobacterium endophyticum DSM 29537
NCBI: GCA_003634455.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.93	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.39	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	88.74	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.80	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	96.92	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	92.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Flavobacterium endophyticum sp. nov., a nifH gene-harbouring endophytic bacterium isolated from maize root.	Gao JL, Lv FY, Wang XM, Yuan M, Li JW, Wu QY, Sun JG	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.000513	2015

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#22737	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 29537
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Flavobacterium endophyticum (DSM 29537, ACCC 19708, 522)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_003634455

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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