Other numbers: Hg5Tf. Taxonomic status: Type strain. History: < A. Juszczyk Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biochemistry, Dept. of Platn Physiology and Biochemistry, Krakow, Poland. Isolated from: Leaves of coltsfoot (Tussilago farfata L.), growing on a mercury-contamined soil in an industrial area; Poland. Additional information: Type (). Forms biofilm, produces siderophores. Presence HgCl2 prevents plasmid loss. Resistance to heavy metals (predicted resistance to cobalt, zinc, cadmium, chromate, nickel, silver and arsenic). Mer operon on a plasmid. Cultivation conditions: Medium 71 with 0,01% of HgCl, 2 days.