Symmetrospora symmetrica

Description of Symmetrospora symmetrica View in CoL MMD-1

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

Strain MMD-1 (KCTC 37301) was isolated from Citrus sunki collected in Jeju-si, Republic of Korea.