DESCRIPTIONOF LACTICASEIBACILLUS MANIHOTIVORANS COMB. NOV.

Lacticaseibacillus manihotivorans (ma.ni.ho.ti.vo’rans. N.L. neut. n. manihotum cassava; L. v. vorare to devour; N.L. part. adj. manihotivorans cassava-devouring).

Basonym: Lactobacillus manihotivorans Morlon-Guyot et al. 1998, 1107 VP

Strains of L. manihotivorans express extracellular amylases [165]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.14 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 47.7.

Isolated from sour cassava starch fermentation and from tomato pomace silage.

The type strain is OND 32 T =CCUG 42894 T =CIP 105851 T =DSM 13343 T =JCM 12514 T = LMG 18010 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZEU00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AF000162.