 It was found to metabolise simple sugars such as mannose, glucose, galactose and maltose, as well as alcohols such as glycerol, inositol and mannitol.Genotypically, studies of 16s ribosomal RNA suggested "P. kururiensis" belonged to the "genus" "Paraburkholderia".The G+C total DNA content was measured as 64.8 mol %, as perhaps would be expected for proteobacteria.