and some characteristics in the description of the original
genus were not found in other species of the genus.
Therefore,
the
description
of
the
genus
Paenibacillus
was
emended
by Shida et
al.
(1997).
Furthermore, Paenibacillus
polymyxa
(Ash et
al.
1993)
was
considered as the type
species
of the genus by the Judicial Commission in 2005
(Judicial
Commission of the International Committee for
Systematics
of Prokaryotes 2005). At
the time of writing,
154
species with validly
published names were recognized
as
members of the genus Paenibacillus
(http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/p/paenibacillus.html).
Species belonging to this
genus
were mostly aerobic or facultatively
anaerobic, rodshaped,
endospore-forming bacteria, possessing anteisoC
as the major cellular fatty acid and having genomic
DNA G + C contents in the range 39–54 mol % (Shida
et al. 1997; Montes et al. 2004; Takeda et al. 2005). In this
report, we describe two novel species belonging to the
genus Paenibacillus that were isolated from a cold spring
sample and carrot (Daucus L.) sample, respectively, and
they were both closely related to the species