Methane-oxidizing bacterial strain.
Isolated from surface soil of a rice paddy field at the Crop Institute, Aichi Agricultural Research Centre (formerly Anjo Agricultural and Extension Centre, Aichi-ken Agricultural Experiment Station), Anjo, Aichi, Japan (34 deg 97 min N, 137 deg 07 min E) on August 11, 2003.
Kaise H, Sawadogo JB, Alam MS, Ueno C, Dianou D, Shinjo R, Asakawa S
Title
Methylocystis iwaonis sp. nov., a type II methane-oxidizing bacterium from surface soil of a rice paddy field in Japan, and emended description of the genus Methylocystis (ex Whittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993.