Gemmatirosa kalamazoonesis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the rarely-cultivated bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes

Strain KBS708 was isolated from organically managed agricultural soil supporting a wheat-corn-soybean rotation at the Long Term Eco-logical Research Site at Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners, Michigan, USA. This site is located in the Kalamazoo soil series, from which the proposed bacterial species name is derived. Soil parameters were measured as previously described (DeBruyn et al., 2011): soils were pH 5.6 with 0.12% N, 1.3% C, and 2.0 ppm Mehlich3-extractable PO