Starmerella apicola, CBS, 2868

Description of Starmerella apicola View in CoL MBEE-1

Cells are oval-shaped, and budding is polar ( Fig. 1 View Fig ). Colonies are convex, smooth, and white-cream colored after 3 days of incubation on YPD agar at 25°C. In the API 20C AUX test, strain MBEE-1 is positive for glucose, glycerol, D-xylose, D-sorbitol, D-saccharose, and D-raffinose; weakly positive for calcium 2-keto-gluconate, L-arabinose, and adonitol; and negative for xylitol, D-galactose, inositol, methyl-α-D-glucopyranoside, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-cellobiose, D-lactose, D-maltose, D-trehalose, and D-melezitose ( Table 2).

Strain MBEE-1 ( KCTC 37300 View Materials ) was isolated from Apis mellifera collected in Okcheon-gun , North Chungcheong Province, Republic of Korea .