A Gram-positive-staining, filamentous bacterial strain that developed cylindrical sporangia containing four oval-to rod-shaped spores at the ends of short sporangiophores on branched aerial mycelium was isolated from tropical rainforest soil near a hot spring. The cell-wall peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid, glutamic acid and alanine as cell-wall amino acids; the whole-cell hydrolysate contained rhamnose, madurose, glucose, galactose and 3-Omethylmannose as whole-cell sugars. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9(H 4 ). Mycolic acids were not detected. The diagnostic phospholipid was phosphatidylethanolamine. The predominant cellular fatty acids were iso-C 16 : 0 and 10-methylated C 17 : 0 . The G+C content of the DNA was 71

Four strains of acetic acid bacteria were isolated from flowers collected in Thailand. In phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and 16S-23S rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region sequences, the four isolates were located in the lineage of the genus Gluconobacter and constituted a separate cluster from the known Gluconobacter species, Gluconobacter oxydans, Gluconobacter cerinus, and Gluconobacter frateurii. In addition, the isolates were distinguished from the known species by restriction analysis of 16S-23S rDNA ITS region PCR products using three restriction endonucleases Bsp1286I, MboII, and AvaII. The DNA base composition of the isolates ranged from 55.3-56.3 mol% G؉C. The four isolates constituted a taxon separate from G. oxydans, G. cerinus, and G. frateurii on the basis of DNA-DNA similarities. Morphologically, physiologically, and biochemically, the four isolates were very similar to the type strains of G. oxydans, G. cerinus, and G. frateurii; however, the isolates were discriminated in their growth at 37°C from the type strains of G. cerinus and G. frateurii, and in their growth on Larabitol and meso-ribitol from the type strain of G. oxydans. The isolates showed no acid production from myo-inositol or melibiose, which differed from the type strains of the three known species. The major ubiquinone homologue was Q-10. On the basis of the results obtained, Gluconobacter thailandicus sp. nov. was proposed for the four isolates. The type strain is isolate

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Actinomycete strain TT1-11 T , which produces single non-motile spores on substrate hyphae, was isolated from peat swamp forest soil in Thailand. The isolate showed morphological and chemotaxonomic properties consistent with its classification in the genus Micromonospora. Phylogenetic analysis using 16S rDNA sequences supported this assignment and it formed a subclade with M. coerulea. This isolate can be distinguished from M. coerulea by its physiological and biochemical properties, and it showed a less than 53% DNA relatedness to the type strains of all the validly named Micromonospora species. On the basis of phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic data, strain TT1-11 T (=JCM 12357 T =PCU 239 T =DSM 44815 T =TISTR 1232 T) is proposed as the type strain of a novel Micromonospora species, Micromonospora aurantionigra sp. nov.