Hydrogenophaga crocea sp. nov. associated with cyanobacterial mat isolated from farmland mud.

A catalase and oxidase-positive strain BA0156 was isolated from a cyanobacterial mat collected from the farmland mud cultivated with sugarcane from Ahmednagar, India. The 16S rRNA gene of strain BA0156 showed the highest percent sequence similarity with Hydrogenophaga borbori LMG 30805 (98.5%), followed by H.