DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS ZHACHILII COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus zhachilii (zha.chi’li.i. N.L. gen. n. zhachilii of zha-chili, a Chinese fermented mustard green product).

Basonym: Lactobacillus zhachilii Zhang et al., 2019, 2199 VP

Growth is observed between 15 and 45°C and with a wide range of hexoses and disaccharides but not with pentoses [147]. Thegenome size is 2.71 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 36.3.

Isolated from Zha-Chili, a traditional fermented product from mustard greens.

Thetypestrainis HBUAS52074 T =GDMCC1.1417 T =KCTC 21106 T.

Genome sequence accession number: CP031933.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: MH392835.