Strain 5GH22-11 T , which was isolated from greenhouse soil in the Yangpyeong region, Gyeonggi province, Republic of Korea, was characterized to be an aerobic, Gram-stainnegative, flagellated, rod-shaped bacterium. It could grow at temperatures from 10 to 33 8C (optimum of 28-30 8C), in the pH range of 6.0-10.0 (optimum of pH 7.0) and without NaCl. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain 5GH18-14 T showed the highest sequence similarities with Lysobacter niabensis GH34-4 T (98.6 %),

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... ysobacter yangpyeongensis GH19-3 T (98.1 %), 'Lysobacter fragariae' THG-DN8.7 (97.9 %), Lysobacter terrae THG-A13 T (97.3 %), 'Lysobacter rhizosphaerae' THG-DN8.3 (97.2 %), 'Lysobacter tyrosinelyticus' THG-DN8.2 (97.2 %) and Lysobacter oryzae YC6269 T (97.2 %), revealing less than 95.5 % sequence similarities with all other species with validly published names. Phylogenetic trees also indicated that strain 5GH18-14 T formed a compact subcluster with L. niabensis GH34-4 T , L. yangpyeongensis GH19-3 T , L. terrae THG-A13 T and L. oryzae YC6269 T within the genus Lysobacter. The predominant quinone of strain 5GH18-14 T was Q-8. The polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine in large amounts, and moderate or small amounts of three unknown phospholipids and two unknown aminophospholipids. DNA-DNA hybridization values with closely related species were below 70 %. The DNA G+C content was 65.9 mol%. Based on the phylogenetic, physiological and chemotaxonomic data, it has been demonstrated that strain 5GH18-14 T represents a novel species of the genus Lysobacter, for which the name Lysobacter terricola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 5GH18-14 T (5KACC 16954 T 5JCM 30862 T ).