Leuconostoc citreum CAU 1476

Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Bae, Jin-Woo, Lee, Soon Dong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Yi, Hana, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Chi Nam Seong and Kiseong, 2019, A report of 38 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea within the classes Bacilli and Deinococci isolated from various sources, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 176-190 : 187

Description of Leuconostoc citreum CAU 1476

Cells are Gram-stain-positive and coccus-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex, smooth, transparent, and cream colored after incubation for two days on MRS at 30℃. Oxidase activity is negative. Aesculin is hydrolyzed. Enzyme activity for arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase is negative. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not assimilated. Nitrate is not reduced to nitrite. Indole is not produced and glucose is not fermented. Strain CAU 1476 (= NIBRBAC000501224) was isolated from kimchi, Seoul, Republic of Korea (37°33 ʹ 04.9 ʺ N 126°57 ʹ 48.9 ʺ E) .