sp. nov., isolated from wheat leaf tissue.

A bacterium, designated strain ZK17L-C2, was isolated from the leaf tissues of wheat () collected in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, PR China. It is aerobic, non-motile, Gram-negative, rod-shaped and red-to-pink in colour. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain ZK17L-C2 belonged to the genus and was most closely related to KCTC 12533 (98.