Abstract
An aerobic, facultatively chemolithotrophic and methylotrophic strain, GB, was isolated from a maize rhizosphere. On the basis of comparative analysis of its phenotypic and genotypic properties, it is proposed that strain GB(T) (=VKM B-2222(T)=NCIMB 13773(T)) be assigned to the genus Paracoccus as Paracoccus kondratievae sp. nov.