Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Dr. Xiao-Xia Zhang
(Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese
Academy of Agricultural Sciences) for her kind providing the reference
type strain,
and
Prof.
Aharon
Oren (The Hebrew
University
of
Jerusalem,
Israel) for his kind help with the Latin etymology for the
new
species. This
research work
was
supported by Chinese national
program
of
high
technology research and
development
(Grant
nos.
2012AA021705
and 2012AA063503). W-J
Li was
also supported by
the
Hundred Talents
Program of Chinese Academy
of Sciences and
Guangdong
Province
Higher Vocational
Colleges
& Schools Pearl