Reclassification of Enterobacter sp. FY-07 as Kosakonia oryzendophytica FY-07 and Its Potential to Promote Plant Growth

Precise classification of bacteria facilitates prediction of their ecological niche. The genusEnterobacterincludes pathogens of plants and animals but also beneficial bacteria that may require reclassification. Here, we propose reclassification ofEnterobacterFY-07 (FY-07), a strain that has many plant-growth-promoting traits and produces bacterial cellulose (BC), to theKosakoniagenera. To re-examine the taxonomic position of FY-07, a polyphasic approach including 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, ATP synthase β subunit (atpD) gene sequence analysis, DNA gyrase (gyrB) gene sequence analysis, initiation translation factor 2 (infB) gene sequence analysis, RNA polymerase β subunit (rpoB) gene sequence analysis, determination of DNA G + C content, average nucleotide identity based on BLAST, in silico DNA–DNA hybridization and analysis of phenotypic features was applied. This polyphasic analysis suggested thatEnterobactersp. FY-07 should be reclassified asKosakonia oryzendophyticaFY-07. In addition, the potential of FY-07 to promote plant growth was also investigated by detecting related traits and the colonization of FY-07 in rice roots.Keywords:Enterobacter;Kosakonia;reclassification;FY-07;promote plant growth